The Commute

Thought I'd log some of the things I see on the commute to and from work. Things that I most likely wouldn't see during a typical commute to work in the US, or at least in Overland Park, Kansas.

o Dogs everywhere: on the street, sleeping on the sidewalk, eating from trash piles





o ladies sweeping the sidewalks and roadside with straw hand-broom





o bicycles weaving in and out of traffic, merging

o vendors pushing carts: pots/pans, veggies





o men squatting in a field

o cows grazing on a trash heap













o women in colorful sarees everywhere
o cow on sidewalk in front of restaurant (looking for handout?)

o 4 bikes loaded with coconuts



o 3 bikes loaded with folded straw mats
o more coconut bikes
o 5 more cows at a roadside trash pile
o large roadside vegetable bazaar -- cow helping himself
o carts stacked high with veggies being pushed
o dump trucks loaded over the top with sand -- inverted v-shape
o 3-wheel (rickshaw style) trucks loaded to the hilt
o women selling offerings (flowers) outside temple

o piles of trash on sidewalks and spare lots
o trash-littered sidewalks

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o small store-front shops lined with large jars of edibles

o small one-room cement block houses



o people living under tarps pitched like tents
o people filling water jars at common spiggot



o women walking with basket on head
o rickshaws filling the roads
o hundreds of scooters and motorcycles
o horns, horns, horns
o people crossing street at any point
o vehicles have right-of-way
o man on scooter with wife side-saddle on back
o man, wife, and two children on scooter
o goats in the road and in trash pile
o wooden scafolding held together with twine, many stories high
o guy on phone driving motorcycle, girl on back of bike
o cow begging for pinapple from vendor
o Indian Institute of Astrophysics
o trees everywhere
o flowers, flowers, flowers
o many beautiful gardens and parks breakup city-scape
o man asleep on sidewalk with legs in the road

o 10-12 beggars at an intersection, each doning an arm bandage
o beggar ladies holding babies
o people selling balloons, baskets, towels, newspapers, etc. at intersections