So much for the plan to write something every day. Fortunately, my fellow traveler is more disciplined than I. First a quick geographic highlights review:
Started in Stamford, CT with Komal's brother Rahul's family. It quickly became home, and not only for our GPS program. We got our driving legs (literally with 4 new tires on Rahul and Manna's Land Rover Discovery) and got over jetlag.
Our first adventure was to visit Mattie in Boston and help her set up her room in a new apartment. Since she was sick, we kidnapped her to Komal's friends, Naresh and Shalini, both doctors and adoring parents of adorable 2 yr old Krishna. In the process we learned the car's color and license plate number from the company that towed it away from the Rite Aid across the street from Mat's place.
We went back home to Stamford and Manna's food to lick our wounds and lips overnight and headed out, heads again high, to Cleveland. Pocohontas, our adventure-inspiring GPS, has removed the last traces of my fabled directionally-challenged angst and getting around on the highways and byways is a breeze. But Poco can't read addresses very well and I didn't have my glasses on as we passed my cousin Martha's place in a sudden blinding downpour. But Craig was out with a big golfing (no surprise there) umbrella when we finally backtracked to their place.
Next we went to Ann Arbor where my Aunt Jeannie and Uncle Flip treated us to a University of Michigan football game. Mind-blowing to be back with 110,000 like-minded crazies doing waves and belting out 'Hail to the Victors'.
For the last 4 days we've been hanging out in Cincinnati with Komal's other US-based brother, Alok, Anjali and their boys Rohan and Rishi. Pure free-child heaven for me: music, laughter, jokes, books, yard-work and more laughter.
That's the bare-bones account. More when we return from lunch....
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