FEB 6, 13 .. SAFELY INTO NEW DELHI ! !

As I sit here .. it is Wednesday morning .. February the 6th .. in spite of what the Google Blogspot heading above may say!

Let's just start off basic .. I am safely into New Delhi, India ..  and that is a good thing.   Depending upon whom I ask .. it has been raining for either two or three days .. and today looks like it will continue the 'rainy trend' ..

As we landed at 1AM local time this morning .. it was raining and foggy .. and a tad unnerving .. but all is well that ends well ..

By the time I completed Immigration and Customs and was in a taxi it was past 2AM .. and the traffic .. at 2AM in the early morning was GRIDLOCK !  But again .. I got to the YMCA here on Jai Singh Road in good shape and 'over-tipped' my taxi driver because he really drove safely and sanely .. An over-tip to you reading along here amounted to Two ($2) US Dollars and let me tell you .. my driver was jumping up and down happy with that tip .. the total fare was about Eight ($8) US Dollars so I gave him a 20% tip in lieu of the common no-tip-whatsover ..

I tried and I tried and I tried again and again to call Patti with no luck .. the outside pay phone at the YMCA lacked a dial tone and my friend at the front desk .. despite about ten or more attempts .. could not get a call to go through to the USA .. either to a cell phone or to a land line home phone .. no difference .. it was about 3:30AM when I 'crashed' .. and I mean I 'crashed' ..

Busy day today .. I have eaten breakfast and gotten money .. next up I will try to activate my India Cell Vodafone so I can make and receive calls .. I must get a stash of bottled drinking water .. go to my tailors and have him do some work on one of my India Shirts .. and all of it 'in-the-rain' it looks like at this writing ..

This will-do-it for now at least .. I have got-to-tell you all .. this morning .. I am 'feeling' each of my 76 years of life .. knowing and accepting this fact .. it is critical that I move slowly and deliberately .. I am 'prone' to 'mistakes' when I am feeling as I currently feel .. and here in India .. a 'mistake' can be fatal !  Like the 'mistake' of trying to board a moving bus .. or to de-board a moving bus before it fully stops .. or to get 'casual' out in the New Delhi traffic ..

In late October of 1990 .. when I arrived in India for my first-ever visit .. I instantly 'felt' like I 'belonged' here in India. Now .. over twenty two   (22) years and 'counting' .. at 10AM local time the 6th of February 2013 .. I STILL FEEL LIKE I BELONG HERE !  The magic of twenty two years is still alive-and-well with me and with Mother India ..

OK .. it is now ..  "time to get-on-with-the-getting-on" .. and I quote Richard Petty who would say this prior to beginning a NASCAR race when I was with his team back in the early 1970's ..  WHAT A  THRILL THOSE FEW YEARS WERE !

Much Joy from a 'wired up' Captain .. Love too .. 

Now Patti my dear one you can go to work and assist me to clean this up .. sorry I could not get a call through to you last night but you KNEW I was into Delhi safely ..  

JAN 30, 13 .. I AM SAFELY INTO HONG KONG ..

Wednesday Evening The 30th of January 2013 .. 9:49PM ..


I am only one .. But Still .. I AM ONE ..

I cannot do everything .. But Still .. I CAN DO SOMETHING ..

And because I cannot do everything ..

I WILL NOT REFUSE TO DO THE SOMETHING I CAN ..

Edward Everett Hale ..

Those wonderful words get me UN-stuck when I AM stuck !

Too much to say and where to begin ..

YESTERDAY .. Monday and Tuesday .. January 28th and 29th ..

THE FLIGHT(S) HERE ..

Getting out of Detroit, Michigan..  we were blessed with a snow and ice 'storm-from-hell' .. Danny 48073 picked me up at 4:30AM and we were off .. I boarded the flight to Chicago 'just a tad late' .. we all sat and we sat .. then we all DE-BOARDED the flight to Chicago .. back inside the terminal we all sat and sat .. then we all RE-BOARDED another aircraft at another departure gate .. en route to take-off we had to stop and get the aircraft 'de-iced' .. then we  flew to Chicago .. arriving about two hours late ..

It took me one-good-hour to get from Chicago O'Hare Domestic Terminal 2 to O'Hare International Terminal 5 but get there I did ..

THEN THINGS WENT FROM CHALLENGING (Yes 'Zilla? Re-read the above 'Zilla.. ) TO THE ULTIMATE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER IN MY ENTIRE LIFE EXPERIENCED ..

In spite of being several hours late into Chicago O'Hare .. I was so early to the Cathay Pacific Airlines Check-In-Desk in Terminal 5 that no Cathay Pacific staffers were on duty yet !

So I waited about half-an-hour and checked in ..

"Sir .. you are in Business Class Sir .. Please go to our Cathay Pacific Lounge before boarding Sir !"

International Security is tough .. but I made it through ..

And then HOO-BOY the trip was off-and-running ..

Into the Cathay Pacific Lounge I went and what did I see ?

A FULL BUFFET .. Lemon Chicken .. Bow-Tie-Pasta with Cheese Sauce .. String Beans with Slivered Almonds and Onions .. Wonderful Roasted Potato Quarters .. Greek Salad .. Fresh Fruit .. and more .. every liquid you could imagine and all you wanted .. Beer and Wine .. and Gatorade and every possible soda pop ever made .. Water too .. and some desserts too !

Arrrrggggggg .. ten plates of food and one hour later I was stuffed beyond-the-beyond ..

We boarded .. we took off on time .. we leveled off .. the Captain turned off the seat belt sign .. I reclined my bed in Business Class and SLEPT FOR OVER FIVE (5) HOURS .. I awoke .. burped .. refused the gourmet dinner .. well I took the Chocolate Cake with Whipped Cream ! .. and SLEPT ANOTHER FOUR (4) or so hours ..

Hot dog .. because I'd slept for Nine (9) Hours .. I had ONLY Six and one Half Hours (6-1/2) more to fly !

We landed in Hong Kong on time .. 7:35PM local time on Tuesday the 29th of January ..

It took the usual two hours to pass through Immigration and get my baggage and pass through customs and then get the train to Hong Kong .. then get the bus to the YMCA at 41 Salisbury Road in Kowloon in Tsimshatsui ..

Then I 'crashed' in my room AFTER riding the Star Ferry over to Hong Kong Island and back and getting two gallons of bottled water to drink and bathe with and getting international telephone calling cards .. and making some telephone calls and (?) I keep myself busy ! I hit-the-sack after mid-night !

WEDNESDAY the 30th of January ..

So what did I do all day today .. Wednesday the 30th ? .. I got up and made some more phone calls and ate SINGAPORE RICE NOODLE FOR BREAKFAST at 9:45AM ..

After my breakfast of SINGAPORE RICE NOODLE .. I went back to my dorm room at the YMCA and ? ..

I lay down at 10:30AM this morning to 'refresh and take a short nap' ..

I SLEPT LIKE THE DEAD FOR SEVEN AND ONE HALF HOURS (7 1/2) ..

I staggered awake at 6PM ..

So what to do ?  THAT is a no-brainer .. go have a dinner of SINGAPORE RICE NOODLE .. ride the Star Ferry to Hong Kong Island and return to Kowloon AFTER exploring the Hong Kong 'Central District' ..

And ? 

Write and Post this !  Oh my I do hope it makes some sense and there are not too many 'typos' and errors in thinking .. to be honest .. I still feel sort of 'fuzzy' from the trip over here .. and from sleeping far too long than was healthy !

With that I will sign-off .. 

THRILLED-BEYOND-BELIEF AT BEING IN HONG KONG IN CHINA !!

If the Good Lord 'takes me during my sleep tonight' I will .. 

'CHECK-OUT ONE HAPPY-CAMPER !!


Much Love from Bobba and from all of the Travelling Bobbseys here on-the-road again with me !!    Cap ..
  

JAN 25, 13 .. AND PEOPLE .. AND FRIENDS .. ASK ME ?

The other  day .. 'Zilla and I had another of our 'Why India Cap?' visits on the phone .. and .. as usual .. I have written over four hundred pages trying to explain to myself .. 'Why India?' .. I could not give poor 'Zilla quite the specific answer 'Zilla always seeks .. read on my friend .. read on 'Zilla ! 

As part of my 'process' before I leave for a trip to India .. I send post cards to my closest friends and associates in India .. 

TELL ME .. YOU JUST TELL ME .. "No Cap .. I am not .. in any small way .. 'touched' by the following e-mail" ..

Respected MY Legendary GRAND Father GOOD MORNING h r u & FAMILY

GRAND FATHER I AM Receive your HAPP
Y NEW YEAR WISHING I AM RECEIVED

SOME LATE SO I AM VERY ..VERY SORRY MY FAVORITE GRAND FATHER

PLEASE PARDOM ME . I HOPE & PREY TO GOD YOUR GOOD HEALTH & HAPPINESS YOU AND your family . SIR I AM SEE YOUR ALL BLOG AND YOUR CMMITMENT ,GUIDANCE SO VERY GOOD AND VERY RARE,AND SPECIOUS E PHOTO . YOUR FAITH-FULLY

Thank you Mister Shivam !  Thank you Sir !

You have no idea of how much your tender e-mail has touched my heart ..

God be Willing .. I will see you soon !

Your Friend and Your Ally .. Baba Kaps .. 

JAN 18, 13 .. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL !

THANKS TO MY WEB MISTRESS 'GULLIBLE' .. I THINK I HAVE PULLED THIS TRICK OFF !

It looks like I can 'go-back' and 'pull-forward' old photos !

I want to go back in time to the 21st of February 2012 .. and my leaving the New Delhi Airport .. NEVER . in all of my years of International travel have I seen the crowds that I encountered leaving India .. so below are two photos showing the crowds ..

Now turn around 180-degrees from the above scene and you see the below scene to my back ..

This 'blast from the past' will show you all what I 'look forward to' in the International Travel Scene !

For the FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS .. maybe for the first time EVER .. I became VERY 'concerned' that I would not get to my departure gate ' on time ' .. as it turned out .. I got to my gate exactly on-time NOT early .. BUT .. the plane departed OVER TWO (2) HOURS late ..

THANK YOU  'GULLIBLE' !

JAN 16, 13 .. STUNNING !

STUNNING !

ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVELY  STUNNING !

In some odd-sort-of way .. I feel sort-of-sorry for those of you who do not deal with mental illness on a day-in-day-out basis.  You simply do not have a clue as to the absolutely 'giddy highs’ of the Roller Coaster Ride of Life you are missing!

WHEN I GET A ‘CALLING’ .. IT IS SO SWIFT AND IT IS SO SUDDEN AND IT IS SO ABSOLUTLEY INSTANTANEOUS THAT IT TAKES MY BREATH AWAY !

And I ‘just-now’ got one ..

CLARITY !

RAZOR SHARP PRECISE CLARITY ! 

It has been written for me that on ..

May 20^th .. God Willing .. I will fly from Hong Kong into Chicago O’Hare .. this trip IS BOOKED and paid for.

May 20^th .. or May 21^st .. or May 22nd .. around there sometime .. and it is NOT YET BOOKED .. I will fly from Chicago O’Hare NORTH TO ALASKA!

I will ‘summer’ in the NORTH .. and in late November or in early December of 2013 .. God Willing ..

I will return to Hong Kong and to India ..

ALL OF THIS GOD WILLING ..

“There it is my little ‘Captain’, there it is!”  .. “Got it God!, I have it !"

Oh somewhere .. somewhere out there .. I can hear it playing oh-so-clearly .. they are singing MY SONG just for me !

In an Ocean, ‘way out yonder, (As all sapient people know)

Is the land of Wonder-Wander, Whither children love to go;

It’s their playing, romping, swinging, That give great joy to me

While Cap’s Dinkey-Bird goes singing in the amfalula tree!

“Oh God of Abraham .. should I really publish this?” .. “Oh yeah Captain!”

Done deal .. With Much Love ..

Now YOU all love one another! .. That is what it says for us all to do !

 Cap ..

Would you rather believe and be wrong ? .. or NOT believe and be wrong ?

JAN 15, 13 .. THE JIGSAW PUZZLE .. PART II

THANKFULLY! there seem to be ‘a few of you’ following along here who actually prefer reading written posts as opposed to viewing strictly photos.  I base this on the fact that a few of you voiced this preference to me when I was posting photos here and posting written thoughts over at Baba Kaps Doxology (babakaps.net) my other web site.  As in .. “Cap, actually I am reading your writings at Baba Kaps Doxology and not looking at all the photos you are posting at Bobba Caps Dolology.”

At the Royal Oak library this afternoon I MUST try to find a copy of Julia Cameron’s book .. ‘The Right To Write’ .. so I can accurately quote her when she states .. “It is the ACT OF WRITING that calls forth ideas and not sitting around idly wondering what you are going to write.”

What you have just read above IS NOT WHAT I INTENDED TO WRITE when I sat down here at 8AM Eastern Standard Time in the City of Royal Oak in the State of Michigan in the United States of America. 

It seems to be a ‘Truth Of My Writing Universe’ that the instant I put pen-to-paper or fingers-to-keyboard I seem to no longer be in-charge of what results therefrom!  And I have personally witnessed this-exact-same-phenomenon in countless others who ‘write inventory’.   They think they are going to write about one specific line of resentments and fears and a completely different line of resentments and fears comes forth from their pen!

I RESENT THIS DRATTED ‘CTRL’ KEY ON THE LOWER LEFT OF MY KEYBOARD!  I REACH TO HIT ‘SHIFT’ AND I HIT ‘CNTRL’ AND I LOSE EVERYTHING!    I FEAR THAT I JUST LOST THE TOTAL WRITING I JUST BEGAN!

OK LET ME TALK ABOUT PHOTOS!

Back last November or early December I found out Google has put a limit on the amount of storage I can 'have-for-free’ here on Blogspsot.  Or at least Google has put a limit on my photo-storage-capacity.  OK I ‘agreed’ to pay them something like three dollars-a-month (NO GOING BACK they advised me!) for my existing photo capacity.   I then tried to post a photo and got the same message that I have exceeded my photo-storage-capacity despite the fact that a few minutes earlier I had agreed to pay $3 a month! 

So I sit   S T U C K !

Rather than jump to six dollars-a-month (or even more) forever .. and risk being told that still is not enough money and I can’t go back ..  I have stopped posting photos here.

This morning I just tried the following.  I went back to FWIW 179 dated February 26, 2012, and tried to ‘revert to draft’ that writing and then ‘publish it’ hoping that the entire writing .. FWIW 179 of February 26, 2012 .. would appear-here-and-now on January 15^th 2013.  Photos and all.

NO LUCK.  It just re-posted back-in-place new changes and all. So I am TOTALLY UNABLE  to move-around-photos  already posted.  Google just won’t let me re-use existing photos.

AND-THE-WORLD-TURNS ..

Now I am thinking that I will turn Baba Kaps Doxology into a photo web site and keep Bobba Caps Doxology a text web site.

OR!  Set up another Google Blogspot web site calling it Bobba Caps Photos or some such.

NOW TO WRITE WHAT I SET ABOUT TO WRITE WHEN I BEGAN !
Thank you so much Julia Cameron !

"What did you say Oh God of Abraham?" .. "You have given me enough money to pay Google one-hundred-dollars a month for photo storage!" .. "But you don't understand Oh God of Abraham!" .. "No yeah buts you say!"

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

THE  JIGSAW  PUZZLE .. PART II

Two posts ago .. Friday the 4^th of January 2013 .. I began writing about the JIGSAW PUZZLE that a major trip out-of-the-country turns out to be for me .. I can’t speak for you!

THE JIGSAW PUZZLE now stands at about 80% complete. 

I have now completed the first-round-of-mail to those friends abroad who I will see or who follow me closely here.  Post Cards only because envelope mail will often be stolen and opened in the vain attempt to find money some people are stupid enough to actually send abroad!   All mailed together in one batch of mail so IF someone tells me they received their card I will assume the others also received theirs.

 Raj in Herbertpur in Dehradun 248 142 has confirmed by e-mail he received his card.  THANK YOU RAJ !

I am busy wrapping-up a lot of odds-and-ends here that I want finished before I leave .. lists of what I need abroad .. visiting friends I want to be sure to see before I leave .. I have already made two trips to Toledo, Ohio, to see Mel and Lori and will make a third trip next Monday.  And more much more I will not go into here.

Ask me .. “Cap can you believe you are about to make your tenth (10^th) trip to India?” .. “No I can not!”

Thank you Oh God of Abraham for my many blessings!

Over and Out for now .. Cap ..

JAN 11, 13 .. MISSING CAR KEYS .. TOO FUNNY

Patti just sent this to me and it is TOO FUNNY .. so I decided to post it here .. one never knows about these 'internet writings' BUT .. I howled and hope you will too!  Just a little 'day brightener' for us all!

 The author .. a lady .. begins ..

 Several days ago as I left a meeting at a hotel, I realized suddenly that my car keys were missing.  So I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down looking for my car keys. They were not in my pockets! A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing. Suddenly I realized I must have left them in the car.

 Frantically, I headed for the parking lot. My husband has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition. My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them. His theory is that the car will be stolen. As I burst through the door, I came to a terrifying conclusion that his theory was right. The parking lot was empty.

 I immediately called the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen.

 Then I made the most difficult call of all, I called my husband. 

 "Hi, honey," I stammered, (I always call him "honey" in times like these) "I love you." "I left my keys in the car and it's been stolen."

 There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard his voice.

"Are you kidding' me", he barked, "I dropped you off" !!!!!!!

Now it was my time to be silent.

 Embarrassed, I said, "Well, come and get me.

 He retorted, "I will, as soon as I convince this cop that I didn't steal your car!"

"Yep it's the golden years".........For those of you already here, you know! For those of you not yet here...YOU WILL BE!.