Taipei

Well, the trip is over. You spent your last ten days on the beach and you have a pretty good tan. You take a train to Bombay and go for a beer at a bar called Leopold's while your girlfriend does a final round of shopping (hasn't she already bought a million things?). You are very tired and when she comes to get you, you have another hour you could spend in Bombay but instead, you both decide to go to the airport early. It is the worst traffic ever and it takes two hours. You get there and wait in long lines because of heightened security since 9/11. Finally, you get to your gate and open your daypack. There is a bottle of water in there. You had forgotten about it. But it's half full and went through two security checks and an x-ray scan. You wonder how this can happen in one of the largest cities in the world, yet in Moncton, New Brunswick, security took away your grandfather's shoe polish. You think either Moncton Airport has a terrible problem with terrorists, or too much time on their hands.Then you hop on Thai Airways flight 634 and wave goodbye to India.