84 kilometers = 52.1951801 miles

It is a week until time to leave.

I am getting really excited. This is going to be very interesting and a challenge. I am hoping that by writing this blog I will stay positively focused and that the comments I get back from my blog readers will be encouraging. It will be like getting little "letters" from friends and family.

I will not ever be mentioning my company name or my own name in this blog. That way I can be ssure that I do not make any unintended connections to work. So, I need a pen name, I wonder what that should be -- I am open to suggestion on that on...

I had some ignorance about blogs, and blogging. I didn't know that the first entries I wrote would reside at the end of the blog and the newest entry would be the first thing you read. Now that makes sense, but compared to a book, it seems a little out of sync. I have found my camera and my flip recorder. I will practice attachning a pictureor two to this blog before I leave.

I received word from work colleagues in India that someone will be waiting for me in Vadodara at 6:30 on the Saturday morning that I arrive. They will take me the 84 kilometers miles to the guest cottage where I will be staying the first 1 1/2 week. I say, bless your heart for getting up so early on a Saturday morning. I hear that everyone works Saturdays in India, so the heart blessing may be back on me pretty soon.

The second 1 1/2 week I will stay in the new hotel in town. I am trying both lodging offerings to see which one work the best for me.