ah, the global village

First internet connection - much sooner than I thought. I and a few others left at about 7 a.m. from Bhopal in a jeep and after a harrowing 2-3 hour ride down these dusty roads, we eventually found the group resting on cots at a Sikh temple / live-in colony near Biaora. Having a laptop here is wild, and connecting to gmail kind of warps my brain to think about. I am really out there now. This is definitely one of the most nuts things I've ever done. But it's great. Really, I wish I could just live like this all the time.
I got almost no sleep last night, staying up trying to do as much of this factsheet work as possible before getting out here. I feel pretty good though. Already have had a couple of roadside cups of chai. Sun is beating. More later. M.