Tag: wanderlust
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The West Coast Trip: First leg
The year 2018 was an eventful year for me, I achieved the goal that brought me to the US in the first place i.e. getting a master’s degree. I was able to travel to Florida in the summer, to New York and Wisconsin in the fall. The west coast that had eluded me for 2…
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Spring Break: Random Roadtrip
The semester was taking a toll on us with midterms and project submissions. We had long ago decided that we needed to do something happening in our lives. So we had this cliched idea of a road trip. As the mid-sem week was about to end, we rented the cars worrying that they won’t be…
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A day trip to Des Moines.
Finals week in December is where we have exams for our courses marking the end of the semester. It was over and we friends hung out at each others place for playing games having deep conversations and cooking food. We had good time and then as Christmas was round the corner some of them had…
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Thanksgiving in Chicago.
Thanksgiving is the time when you are grateful for all the good things in life.I am very thankful for the week-long break that I got in the hectic life. Being in Ames, which is a small town makes you want to go out and explore. So for the break we 9 friends decided to do a…
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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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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
The sound of my cell phone woke me up, I checked the screen to find that it was just 4:30 am. The hostel room was dark and people were snoring in a funny rhythm . The late night talks with people in the common area of the over the Champions League football match had not…
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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’.
We 3 friends decided to go to Kalsubai peak. Upon planning we left Pune a 6:00 am and reached Baari at around 10:30 am.Trekking is the best part. It took us 5 hours to reach the peak from Baari(the base village). All the people who had started earlier during the day were returning back while…
Shubham Khoje 