Archive for the ‘Travel Experience’

  • Day 30 – Wondrous Disneyland
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    Day 30 – Wondrous Disneyland
    A morning pick up of sharp 7:30 am at Hilton, Woodland Hills we were waiting at the reception area enjoying the warmth inside while it was drizzling outside. Our tour guide, came in no time to pick us up, we were his first pick up for the day. For the next 30 minutes we were picking people from different hotels, later we stopped at the tour office to get our passes at Hollywood. The next 15 minutes in queue and we boarded our next bus to Disneyland, my dream destination! Nothing less than an hour of drive, we reached Disneyland and the rains stopped. Lucky we, I must say. The entry took us a while as the bags were being checked. After entering in, I was simply awe-struck with this fairyland full of fun, excitement and enjoyment. There were cartoons dancing on its mini streets, there were shops designed to look like homes, restaurants,  [...]
    Posted at April 8th, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • Day 28-29 Enjoying Los Angeles
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    Day 28-29 Enjoying Los Angeles
    Wow, the morning was beautiful, the weather was good but it was a little lazy and boring to get up. We had a morning check out at 11:00 am from the hotel and I got up at 10:30, u hurriedly packed up everything in a mess. I was happy that hotel guys did not fine me for checking out at 12:00 noon. Well, we did not had much time to board our bus back to LA but enjoyed quite a bit well over the Vegas Strip. Even at noon 12 people were out on strip drinking and laughing and having fun. I browsed a quick look at the hotels and casinos I did not get chance into and entered Shea’s where I ate my Subway, it was filling lunch for me and later out on we went to Caesar’s to check my luck all over again. Right at 3:30 pm, our bus tour guide came to pick us up at Flamingoes. I had always loved these luxurious buses out here giving you all  [...]
    Posted at April 7th, 2010 at 09:04 pm
  • Day 27 – The wonders of Nevada, Arizona
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    Day 27 – The wonders of Nevada, Arizona
    Wow! A beautiful morning and I could still hear some party going on around the places. Right at 7:00 am in the morning we were all ready to have a beautiful 14 hours journey to Grand Canyon. The Lux Bus took us around different hotels to pick up the hotel and after driving for sometime we got down at Anaheim to get our tickets to Grand Canyon and back. After waiting for nearly 20 minutes, we got our approved stickers on t-shirts and hop on to Bus No. 1. There were in all 5 buses with the same tour operator, the bus was quite filled up by the time we entered it so did not have much options to choose our seat. Well, the road was never ending and it seemed a little boring as if there is never going to be the end of journey. Our tour guide was a lovely man, he joked and gave speeches relating to whatever places we would pass around the  [...]
    Posted at April 6th, 2010 at 01:04 am
  • Day 26 – Sin City Las Vegas
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    Day 26 – Sin City Las Vegas
    A tiring journey to Las Vegas, almost four and half-hours but yes they were fruitful after looking over at the mountainous ranges on freeways across the city of Los Angeles and the outskirts of Las Vegas. We took our morning pick-up from Days Inn at Hollywood right at 7:00 am. The bus was a shuttle bus that took us around the place where we were supposed to take over a big Luxbus Liner. It was long and luxurious bus providing us good comfort while on a travel with big windows and of course a free wi-fi service. After reaching Vegas, we were directed to our respective hotels. As we entered, I could sense there is lots of fun going on outside. There were shopping outlets on the roadside for a quick bargain and highly decorated bigger hotels and casinos like Flamingos, Caesars Palace, Imperial Palace, Casino Royale, Harrahs and lots  [...]
    Posted at April 4th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
  • Day 23, 24 & 25 – Sunshiny San Antonio
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    Day 23, 24 & 25 – Sunshiny San Antonio
    I am back again to talk to you about my personal traveling experiences ahead in United States. Sorry to depress few of you guys, my lovely companion readers who had be anxiously waiting for me. Well, the last couple of days I had nothing much to do except to relax and create a back up healthy me again to enjoy the wonders of Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Grand Canyon. My first day at San Antonio was pretty cool at Uncle Thusu’s place, this is a tourist location as I could see getting out of the airport with lots of motels and hotels in the area. Lots of people come here to this place to relax and have fun with their family and friends. The morning we left from Houston was not cold and as I could experience the similar type of climate at San Antonio as well. But you do not sweat here because of the dry climate here. The next day getting  [...]
    Posted at April 4th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
  • Day 22 – The wonders of Sea world at San Antonio
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    Day 22 – The wonders of Sea world at San Antonio
    Well, am back up in the morning writing my lovely experiences of yesterday. It is refreshing to have lovely upma in the morning made by pamposh aunty with a hot cup of tea. Yesterday was a bit tiresome and exciting as well, morning we started from Houston at around 6:00 am in the morning to reach San Antonio by 10:00 am. After refreshing ourselves we left for Sea world which was just 4-5 miles for Thusu uncle’s house. Since the time we have been in Texas, I have been hearing that this place is a must and so I was finally off to the place. The huge gates of Sea world welcomed us, I could see a huge gate structure made of glass and a lovely decoration at the front with artificial dolphins designed. There were huge number of people who had come to visit the place and I was truly impressed with the type of discipline people have  [...]
    Posted at March 31st, 2010 at 09:03 pm
  • Day 21 – Riding in the waves of Galveston & Kimah Island
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    Day 21 – Riding in the waves of Galveston & Kimah Island
    The day was pretty much bright with lovely sunny day and cold breeze running outside the house. The winters had been longer this time throughout United States of America; at least this is what I have been hearing from locals here.  Galveston is around one and half drive from Houston and it is a lovely island where you can see lovely vacation homes. It’s a luxury life with people having their private beach houses and private boats as well. The most famous location at Galveston are its beaches and gardens, the most popular of all of them is the best known Moody gardens. I loved each and every bit of my time here. Galveston Islands provides entertainment for people of all the age groups. Different important places of tourism here are beaches, cruise ship port, historic strand, historic mansion tours, moody gardens attractions complex,  [...]
    Posted at March 29th, 2010 at 09:03 pm
  • Day 19 & 20 – Houston, here we come
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    Day 19 & 20 – Houston, here we come
    I already knew today is going to be a real hectic day as we are flying to Texas through connecting flights and I have already passed so many ordeals for domestic flights here in United States. I do not know why domestic flights had been real boring experiences, they never pick up on time. Oh man, that really makes me nasty as we leave so early from home to avoid any kind of luggage problems and then sitting in airport for hours. At first I used to enjoy those long hours, but now after 20 days it is getting a little monotonous and I just do not want to leave early. Oklahoma was quite a bit of good experience and the Will Rogers airport had over 24 terminals, a pretty small airport. I walked all the way down from terminal 24 to terminal 8 to fetch my Java Dave Hot Chocolate. In the morning when we left from El Reno, it was very windy  [...]
    Posted at March 27th, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Day 17 & 18 – The taste of Oklahoma, El Reno
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    Day 17 & 18 – The taste of Oklahoma, El Reno
    The life is pretty much slow I must say, as I woke up there was nothing much to do or rather even just move out of the house. So probably you had be wondering what I am talking about and so why am I here. Well, you must know that more than the tourists places I had been wandering to see how people in different cities lives. Like we, in India or any other country may portray United States as a rich nations but they have poor people and very poor people living in here. The standard of living is high here, each person may have a car but it does not mean they are well off, I learned this when I visited suburbs of Dalton and now at Oklahoma. There are richer sections of societies here but over all you can see the place is not very developed. The government here is planning a re-development to attract tourism here. We went to take a ride  [...]
    Posted at March 25th, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Day 15 & 16 – Fun at Coca-Cola Museum, Atlanta
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    Day 15 & 16 – Fun at Coca-Cola Museum, Atlanta
    Well, there was nothing much planned for today but I did not realize that the day would turn out to be so wonderful and exciting in the later part of the day. The weather forecasts had predicted a little showers of rain so we let go off our plan to go to Stone mountain as it was an open place with garden and we needed to walk in a mud. So it was a relaxing start of the day as all of us woke a little late than the usual and to top it, it was everybody’s favorite SUNDAY. The Sunday’s here are pretty much fun as people start partying from the Friday evening itself and by the time its Sunday evening they get a little upset with the Monday Blues which are going to set just another morning right at 7’0 clock. We had wonderful breakfast at Indian south Indian Udipi restaurant, what a lovely south Indian brunch. We enjoyed every bite  [...]
    Posted at March 23rd, 2010 at 09:03 pm
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