The western skies as seen from Jersey shores…

Sharmila and I were thinking of what to do once we left Pennsylvania. Initially, we thought we would head out to Philadelphia (this would be our second attempt). But some well timed text message exchanges with my school friend Partha and his wife Jaya later, we actually we landed up in New Jersey. In fact in the Jersey shores.

Is it not too apparent that we were having way too good a time?

Sharmila and I went to Penn’s cave near State College, PA. Took the boat ride inside of the half mile cave. Some very fascinating formations of stalactites and stalagmites. Would certainly recommend the ride…

It was difficult to capture the pictures with the phone but here is one shot. (The red color is due to a light put in there for viewing).

Yesterday, Sharmila was driving around Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. The road kept twisting around hugging the wide Susquehannah river closely. And then suddenly, I saw this sight… in the middle of the river there was a small island… and on that island was a replica of Statue of Liberty!!!

Check out how the mountain seemed to have been formed by repeated alterations of two different kinds of the rocks. And looks like when they sliced open the mountain to build the road, it took the appearance of a layered cake! I think this was on Highway 322 in PA.

They are big. I mean real big… I am glad we were separated by the wire fence…

I had not seen Mrs. Godura for over 35 years. She was our school teacher when I was in my tenth grade. Although she never taught me directly, she was my brother’s teacher and more importantly, she was an important link recently in getting me in touch with an old school mate and another old school teacher.

I knew she was visiting her son Ruchir in State College and since we were on the road anyways, we headed her way. After 7 hours of driving thru absolutely bucolic Pennsylvania, we finally made it to State College. Had a great evening with Mr. and Mrs. Godura, Ruchir and his family!!