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I left Chicago Midway airport last evening and landed at the San Francisco airport late last night. The journey was eventful. They say that’s never a good thing when it comes to air travel. But to be honest, it was a good mix of entertainment and delays.

I had no shortage of people to pick up a conversation with… the large African American woman in the airport shuttle at Chicago who was a diversity manager in the hospitality industry and who hated her dog. Or my neighbour on the flight – the pretty lady who had been to India before and suggested various Indian restaurants to me at San Francisco. Or the elderly couple (on the shuttle at SFO) who were on their way back from Alaska and could not stop talking about their exciting adventure.

The SouthWest flight was on time, but due to a technical snag they had to move us to another plane after sitting in one for over 45 minutes. Any inconvenience caused was more than made up for by the witty air hostess, whose announcement was no less than a stand-up comedy show.

I reached Vinay’s place quite late at night, and it was such a pleasure to meet Vinay and Lindsey — Vinay after almost two years, and Lindsey for the first time! We talked way into the night catching up on gossip, until Lindsey announced it was time for bed. Or we would never have stopped!

Lots of things planned for the first day! I’ll try to update twitter as much as possible. Keep smiling.

San Francisco, travel

Summer at Chicago has been so much fun that I hardly found time to post anything. I haven’t been entirely off the radar: if you have been following me on facebook or orkut, you have definitely seen a lot of pictures.

I’m taking a break from the warm Chicago summer to visit my friend Vinay in the cooler San Francisco. He has been insisting for a while now that I visit him. So I’m going to fly over and spend a week at his place. I’m sure that’s going to be even more fun!