I woke up this morning thinking we might be headed to Durham to touch base with Nikita once.
Later in the day, that got changed to DC. Then Philadelphia.
We started from Madhav’s house thinking we are going to Philadelphia.

One more change in plan. We are now redirecting ourselves to head out State College.

I will tell you later why!!!

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!!

Just looking at how much she was leaning in with the heavy Harley makes me scared…

Sharmila was the driver. As the highway spun around Charleston, managed to a get a couple of shots from the moving car. The golden dome against dark clouds looked great…

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!!!

That would make it state number 41 that I have visited in the US of A. 9 more to go.