So many fascinating Uber drivers on this visit. One had strong opinions on the Mission: Impossible films and the work of the Wachowskis. Another brought his family to Sunnyvale from Kathmandu years before the earthquake.
But my favorite was of Indian extraction from Fiji. He had been a farmer. When the river wasn’t flooding, he’d got to school on the bus. When the river flooded, he’d swim across the river with his backpack over his head. At Fiji’s U.S. embassy, he told his interviewer that “It’s not my fault I was born poor, but it will be my fault if I die poor.”