Dhaka traffic

The traffic in Dhaka is pretty horrendous, but fortunately, my last few years driving in Chicago prepared me for the 30-minute trips that inevitably take 2 hours. On the other hand, those two hours in Chicago traffic were always accompanied by working air conditioners.

Now that Ramadan has begun, traffic is even worse, as people spend the afternoons shopping and preparing for nightly iftar (break-fast). Thankfully, the streets are dead quiet at 6 a.m., so we made it in 12 minutes from the Jennings to the airport for my morning flight to Chittagong…