As promised, here’s one of the comments about sights we saw on our Saturday market trip. Of course, the most memorable sight on a motorized rickshaw trip from the fringes to a crowded and busy place like downtown Ahmedabad must be the traffic. (By the way, are you seeing a theme in my blogs: lots on traffic, crowds, and cows – more on the cows later.) To say the traffic is crazy is understating it; it’s exhilarating, frightening, unbelievable, and just about every other adjective form of any of the above plus a dozen others as well. On our trip today, Ashley held a video camera out a side of the rickshaw as we motored along. I can’t wait to download the images.
For now, I’m posting two pictures. One is of us overtaking a bus with not more than an inch between the mirror and bus. I’d have had a better shot, but pulled the camera back inside the rickshaw because if I'd waited two seconds, I'd have lost the camera and a hand. Ashok, our driver, is either the most skilled or the luckiest of all drivers to survive the day. Sure, there was the motorcycle we clipped, but, hey, we couldn’t stop. That would have been dangerous.
Oh, about the headline. That’s the unofficial credo of our little group when crossing traffic. Just walk into it without looking or faltering, and, whatever you do, “Don’t let them sense fear.”
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