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Its an adventure !!
Swami Ronnie says, "Its not an adventure until **** hits the fan".
I started driving early morning at around 6 AM today because I had a 12 hour long drive ahead of me to reach Charlotte, NC to meet Vivek. He's a friend that I have known from Seattle and he now lives in Charlotte with his wife, Laxmi.
90 minutes or so into driving and I got busted for speeding ...
Austin to San Jose
... plane. The conversations get more interesting as we go. We're off to a great trip!
Safely in the ground in Costa Rica. And the adventure begins. I should have spent a little more time sharpening up on my Spanish growing up in Texas. So far the lyrics to La Bamba aren't getting me far but getting lots of smiles from the ...
In and around ‘The Queen’
This isn't our first visit to the Queen city of Charlotte ( but it’s nice to be back) so if you want more info, or want to see what we got up to last time, take a look at our earlier entry…
This time we are still finding lots of things to explore, one such expedition though exhausting, was truly worth the effort. We drove about 30 miles west to ...
Dinner & Lunch
... eldest daughter) and Alan her new husband, was great - people who spoke our language. They explained some of the nuances of football, politics and American language to us...They also fed us great braai'd chicken flatties...
We returned to our apartment quite buoyed and ready to face more travel in the morning. As we left Jaars, Wayne went to settle our account and bumped into a lady who promptly listened ...
Heading North to get South
... nice for a change...
When we came to pay for our groceries, Kerrin and I stood a little dumbfounded, as the tellers had no platform for you to place your groceries on, so we just kinda stood there trying to figure this out. We obviously looked like hill billies again because some kind packer promptly came over to us and removed my basket from my hand and ushered us over to the till point. The basket goes on ...