On Thursday morning we arrived at DTW around 6:45am for our 8:30am connection to Chicago. After printing our boarding passes and dropping off our baggage, we made our way to security where we were shuttled through the TSA pre-check line. Although we haven’t applied for the pre-check program, we are apparently frequent enough fliers on Delta to be randomly selected and let me tell you it was awesome! No removing shoes or belts, laptops can stay in their bags, the lines are significantly shorter and you don’t have to wait for someone to swab your hands if you are carrying a kiddo. If you are at all a frequent flier and eligible for the pre-check program, do it! Getting through security was easily the best part of our day. Everything went down hill from there…

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We wandered the tree-lined streets of GK-II, ate in an Italian restaurant, and then retreated into the relative quiet of our clean and comfortable guesthouse. Then the next day we lazed around Lodi Gardens, which is a little like Central Park, if Central Park had 15th-century Afghan tombs and bright green parrots everywhere. We grabbed an auto-rickshaw bound for teeming Old Delhi to catch the sunset at India’s largest mosque and then ate some of the best chicken we’ve ever had in one of Chadni Chowk’s back-alley restaurants. Then it was time to head back. It took several hours, three different drivers, and a couple of threats (for good measure) to get us all the way from Old Delhi to GK-II. It was a long journey, but not as long as the next one will be. We are going home.

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