Craig, have you forgotten the division of labor on our trips? You are in charge of worrying, and I’m in charge of blissfully sleeping, oblivious to anything that might disturb me. I enjoyed the remembrance of that first night in India. I also remember later in the trip becoming very well acquainted with the floor of a hotel bathroom after getting a touch of food poisoning from that roadside restaurant outside the bird sanctuary.

Puppypaws: I take your point, but I know some of our Japanese brethren will comment that Geishas are artists and performers, not hookers. But of course you’re dead right, at the Geisha Motel in Seattle I wouldn’t be expecting much of a Japanese tea ceremony.