A Long trip

I used to enjoy asking pondy (in India) why he wanted to goto US for an MS. He almost always wanted to reply "for the babes", but somehow used to fart something else that was never consistent. He used to ask me the same thing, and I almost always replied that I wanted to know more of US, see how the country is, see it's culture, people etc. And pondy used to almost always laugh at me.

Now that I'm in US and my prof had decided to take a vacation, I decided to go for a long trip anywhere in US. I wanted to see a lot of places, which is possible either in California or New York. Since my relatives had called me earlier to visit them, I decided to go for a trip to the Northeast. I had such an awesome trip that I want to document almost all of it. What better place to do it than in a blog?

I knew that my relatives stay close to Boston, but never exactly knew where. So I decided to visit Boston when I wud meet my relatives. As I asked my friends, I got to know that New York was 4 hrs from Boston and that's how it got included in my visiting list. What better time to visit New York than on July 4? I checked the map and saw that Philly was close to NYC. So I decided on these 3 cities + my relatives place for a 10 day visit.

I was thinking of staying with Bawa in Boston. But I found out one week before leaving that Bawa was in India. So I contacted Bhanu who was in MIT. But he seemed busy with his thesis defence. Then I went to Ashish for help, and got lots of it. He said I cud peacefully stay with him on my visit to Boston.

Shravan was free in Philly, so I cud stay with him. Only problem was New York, and I was depending on Pondy for visiting NYC with me. But that ass ditched me, twice. He could have come to New York for the long weekend, but somehow didn't show much enthu. He had got a nice reason to pack the trip in the end: the plane tickets were just too high. Anyways, I had decided on visiting NYC by myself, and stay in a hotel.

I'll describe my experiences in the next 10 or so posts...