We crossed over from West Virginia to Virginia last evening and made a beeline to Blacksburg to meet up with my friend from engineering days – the much acclaimed professor in Virginia Tech – Madhav Marathe. The four of us went for long walks and chatted till past midnight last night!!
Had a great time with Madhav, Achla and Aparna. Missed Malvika this time though!!
Last evening, Sharmila and I finally landed up in Lexington. In the gorgeous new house of my good old friend Mark! There was a great party last evening at his place, a good walk this morning to catch up on each other’s lives and then a splendid breakfast outside.
It was great to see Mark and Jen after almost a year. Missed Allison though!!
Sharmila was driving down I-64 deep in the mountains of West Virginia. I was busy trying to take pictures with my camera.
Glanced at my phone to see if we had any connection. What I saw was very surprising… look at the top left corner of the pic.
The surprising part was NOT that we still had 4G connection in such a remote place. The surprising part was we are T-Mobile customers!!!
The phone has been on AT&T network for over an hour. In fact, I am posting this thru that connection….
Strange!!!
As you drive up north on 75 in Kentucky, you will come up against a small town called Berea. If you exit into that town, within a quarter mile, you will see a big sign for “Kentucky Artisanal Center”. If you have time, get in there.
Amazing arts center in the middle of nowhere. All featured artists are from Kentucky and you can see some really wonderful paintings, wax work, blown glass work, metals work and so on and so forth.
Sharmila and I spent over an hour enjoying the artists’ works…
