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New York Times
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Spring Break: Random Roadtrip
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A new semester at Iowa State
It’s a lazy Sunday morning, sipping coffee on the balcony, enjoying the pleasant weather after months of winter. The pleasant weather comes as a relief after two months of white winters. Six months here and I’m accustomed to the weather and a positive 15 degrees Celsius feels like summer. Back home the same temperature would have…
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A day trip to Des Moines.
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Thanksgiving in Chicago.
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The Short Trip.
When you come from a university which has one exam in a semester with no assignments and homework, the two months into the new system were overwhelming. Assignments, bookstore shifts, projects had bound me to the clock and homeworks ran the day. The midterm exam stress needed to be kicked out, a short trip was the…
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My time in ‘The US of A’.
3……2…1. The plane took off from Mumbai International Airport, soaring into the skies cruising at an altitude where the city lights below faded into darkness. The A380 served a good meal and the best inflight entertainment. People dozed of to sleep and I was settling into the comfortable seats, the initial excitement was beginning to simmer.…
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Goa: Beyond Beaches
The semi-sleeper bus reached the vacant streets of Panaji market early in the morning on a chilly December morning. I got down to be surrounded by a number of rickshaw wallas and taxi drivers. Somehow managed to get out of the crowd and grabbed a pilot(a two wheeler taxi) to reach the base camp which…
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Cycling Expedition: Jaisalmer
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Food and Friendship in Jodhpur
This trip to Jodhpur back in December 2014 was like a big thing for me. I was done with my semester exams for second year of engineering, so we friends had decided to go Pondicherry, something offbeat, rather than going to Goa . However, due to some stupid difference of opinion among us(over which we…
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A night at the peak ‘KALSUBAI’.
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Backpacking beginning.
This journey was all about this to that. From cancelled pondicherry trip to the actual Jodhpur backpacking trip. From Pune to Jaisalmer. From meeting college friends to making new friends. From cycling 250km in a month in Pune to cycling around 250 km in 4 days in the desert. Going from dark to darker,healthy to…