Thoughts from West Coast

highlights:

• some wonderful tea flavors at Cha for Tea (still ginger black tea with milk is still best) but its nice to have cold tea flavors in this weather
• speaking of weather - its 35 C .. living in such hot weather in quite a loooong time
• speaking of weather again - nobody talks about how good the weather is here, sun is always shining; its also nice how back in Dublin, life sort revolves around good weather
• got a credit card (of 100 USD limit :D) for building US credit history or thats what the bank lady told is a good idea
  
• likes the vegetation here (apart from the palm tress), feels like back home in India
• Indian food is def. way better
• there are lots n lots of Asians in Irvine .. almost everyone :)
• almost impossible to do anything without a car .. ok i already knew that but thought might be different

Best Landscapes seen from Airplane

On the way from NY to LA, somewhere over Colorado, Utah and Nevada. I haven't looked out of a plane window so much. It was amazing watching all this landscape from high above.








Didn't take pictures of Great Lakes in Michigan, but they were HUGE, for once i thought which ocean are we crossing now. Amazing.

400th Post from Long Beach, LA - Highlights Only

I am moving to Irvine for few months for summer n fall for work project. Thou' am already in LA and no, I didn't get the tickets for the MJ memorial, heard on news, some of them are going for 150,000 $$$ on ebay.

Here are some highlights of the trip already:

• Watched LIVE car chase
  
• Local news about animals escaped from somewhere to somewhere
  
• Mountain Dew
• Cheap Sushi
• Meal portions are huge
• Normal is just not normal anymore
• 5 lane (10 total) highways
• Who said there is car recession - all those fancy brand new GM's!!
• After watching all that Daily Show, had to see Fox News (wow)
• Pics of awesome landscape (prev. post)
• Its actually Hot
• Using AC to keep room temp at 21 C .. ??
• Feels different than east coast

Ah, best part (not exactly after 2.5 months delay but still), no immigration checks in US (only for flights from Dublin/Shannon, Ireland, all stuff done in Dublin airport) .. was good.