"It's your Bangladesh welcome, Madame," said the Winrock driver as we sat in snarled traffic on the way from the airport to my hotel in Dhaka.
I was almost asleep. Now that I'm the hotel, of course, I'm wide awake. Hoping a few minutes fully stretched out on what looks to be a comfy bed will change that directly.
But there are a lot of thoughts and images jangling around in the brain: motorcycles whisking in and out of the traffic, brightly colored tuk-tuk taxis with wire-cage sides, vendors hawking popcorn and peanuts in the gridlock, and, finally, a quiet hotel down a quiet lane. Ahhhh....