Awake

Road trip

Yesterday I was enjoyed the privilege of traveling to see the teacher training team and the youth conference team in action. They were about an hour away from where I am staying in the Big City and about 20 km from each other. I didn't realize this until later that morning, but the man who accompanied me was the personal assistant to a highly regarded leader in the north. More than that, he left the leadership training conference in the south especially to be my guide and left that evening to return to the conference. Wow. I am continually in awe of how the brothers and sisters here demonstrate humble servanthood without restraint.

We did not take the expressway, but backroads all the way to our destination. I must say, after my trip last year, I now regard the driving and traffic situation here to be one of uttermost efficiency and survival, rather than chaotic mayhem. I cannot say of the drivers here that they do not know how to merge. Perhaps Hwy 26 would not experience bottleneck if the drivers were more competant, had better horn honking ability, and a sheer gut-level will to get to their destination alive and quickly. Of course, I learned yesterday from my guide, that in some states, anyone with enough money can get a driver's license—and there's no examination. So I retract my wish. Let Indian driving stay in India. I'll take the MAX instead of the Sunset.