It has been almost a year since I wrote in this blog. Either it is sheer laziness or I have been too busy to sit down and update ! I guess it is more of the former. November and December 2008 were good fun. I got an opportunity to travel to Richmond, Virginiain the US for a 4 week assignment. This was the first time I got to spend some time in the eastern part of the US. I liked the place a lot. Richmond has a lot of history behind it. 4 out of 5 past presidents of the US were from Virginia and a small sleepy town called Williamsburg was apparently one of the landing posts for Britain when they first came into America. One of my cousins - Sudha stays in York Town which is very close to this place. I was meeting Sudha and her husband Murali after a gap of almost 5 years and this was the first time I spent some time with them since their marriage way back in the 70s ! Both of them work for NASA and I enjoyed my time there.
My stay at Richmond was great. The weather was pleasant and I had a couple of guys with me for company. Since we stayed for about a month, we rented out a car and drove around ourselves. So after my Muscat days, I was enjoying driving in highways & freeways. If only we had such roads and space in India !
I shall write more on our trip to Goa and later to Munnar shortly.
