India: THE TRIP!

After a 5 hour delay in LA, a 15 hour flight to Dubai, another 1 hour layover, and 3 more hours on a plane to Bombay, I finally arrived in India. Thats 24 hours of non-stop fun in jam-packed airport terminals and fully loaded airplanes. Thats not including the 30 min car ride, which felt like 30 seconds, and made economy seating feel like the backseat of a limousine. From the airport our driver literally flew past opposing traffic and made his way down the unlit highway until we reached our ugly on the outside, fancy on the inside, hotel aptly named "Lands End." All I can say is, if you've never been to India you are missing out.

Once we arrived in the hotel it was like the world actually spun around and dropped myself and the 6 stuntmen I was traveling with in a new dimension. Oh ya, I forgot. Those of you who don't know, I am a stuntman who's been fortunate enough to have a job in India for the next few months. And this is the story I have decided to write about my experience. I've always wanted to write a story and after lots of air-reading I realized that readers never get the chance to actually see a story as it develops. So, what better way to do that then let readers a.k.a. friends and family, follow my every day or every other day blogs. Which will eventually end as some sort of journalistic docu-story of my time in India. We shall see.

The hotel we got placed in is one of the nicest in Mumbai, and from the inside one of the nicer places that I've stayed. From the outside the 20-something story building looks like any ol' building that you'd find in downtown Los Angeles. But from the road you can barely notice it amongst the thousands of half-finished and half-demolished office buildings that make up Mumbai. The city is a jungle of incomplete ideas, non-existent government, and extreme overpopulation. At least those were my first thoughts...