Standing at an email Kiosk

Standing at an email Kiosk

Standing at an email Kiosk in the Sri Lanka's Business
Class "Peacock Lounge".

It is about 6:00. I was scheduled to receive my wake
up call at 4:00 to be ready for my ride to the airport
for my 8:00 flight to Chennai.

After my full day workshop (60 very enthusiastic
participants) bouncing balloons, having them run
around the room shaking everyone else's hands and my
other usual tricks of the trade about creative
thinking, a great lunch in the hotel's original lobby,
now a banquet room, bigger than two American football
fields and 6 to 8 stories tall and a two hour drive
through Colombo to my night at a resort on the Indian
Ocean I had a basic meal, a walk on the beach at the
water's edge under the stars I internetted and tried
to go to sleep for a few hours.

I have had more sleep at traffic lights.

Concern about making it in time, mosquitos: a
convention of them; making me into an inverted golf
ball for hours, a/c that was too cold. I got up at
2:15 and moved to the hotel lobby to wait for my ride.

Not the finest 2 1/2 hours of my journey to date.

The man at the reception desk and the bell man on duty
were fun to talk with.

My driver arrived on time.

We had to leave so early to get thruough the various
police and military check points between the resort
area and the drop off point at the airport.

Now off to Chennai, India for a weekend of fun and
then off to Istanbul for more fun.

Traveling is more than tours, tourist spots, museums,
it contains many, many details to understand and make
happen in new cultures. Thanks to Prakash, Renuka,
her husband and the various hotel, travel bureau,
airline, aiport staffs my experiences in Sri Lanka
were enjoyable and extremely educational.

Ciao Y'all

Wandering Alan

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