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TraveLog for 20 Jan 2009: Departure

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Well, I’m at the Chennai International Airport, a vigorously skanky airport if there ever was one, sitting on one of the few clean seats well away from the piles of garbage surrounding some of the trash bins. The coffee I’m drinking is decidedly horrible, but it’ll keep me awake until boarding time two hours from now.  Considering this was the first ISO 9000-certified airport in India, I’d like to see the process documentation they put around their maintenance activities.

Today was the second of two long days with vendors. By long I don’t mean bad, just long. I’m wiped, but the days were very useful, and I now have a better understanding of the capabilities of some of the organizations my company works with. The only question now is how to leverage that knowledge.

From Chennai it’ll be an 11 hour flight to Brussels. After a two hour layover—apparently a dangerously short stop when traveling with checked luggage on this route—it’ll be a nine hour flight to O’Hare. From there, it’ll be a short hop home. With layovers, I’ll be in transit for almost 25 hours. The 14-hour flight that’s AA 292 looks almost luxurious by comparison.

I’m too tired to think now, so I’m going to sign off. Goodbye, India. I’ll see you later.

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