My Journey to US / in US - Part 1

Friends...with an advice from one of my friends, I am planning to start this blog in parts. I want to just write down my journey to US and in US. Hope you find this interesting coz I have visited various cities.


Hyderabad Airport


It was Feb 13th, 2007, a day before valentines day. I ( infact we were three friends came together )was in Hyderabad(India) airport to catch flight to Chicago at 1:30 AM. Lots of luggage, second time travel in flight and baggage check in problems...finally got into the flight by completing all the formalities successfully. It was Lufthansa and a decent flight ( for the first time comers )..-P.

The flight was having transit ( break ) at Frankfurt, Germany. We were a bit excited to see a new country within next 9 hours. Enjoyed the flight journey with different people and different things. Finally the time has come where we had to get down at Frankfurt. Oops...what a climate?..i think almost 3 degrees ( centigrade ). The three hours of break went just like 3 minutes as we had to undergo security check there as well. Struggled a lot to do a phone call to India from there and finally could not do as it was tough for us to understand the calling procedure....:).

We were too excited from the next flight as we were about to reach Chicago ( one of the biggest cities and airports in US, ofcourse in the world ). We made a call from a phone in the flight using my ICICI credit card, before getting to know that the bill would be too much if we do a call from flight. Funniest thing is, I dint get this credit card bill....ha ha ha....


Chicago snow fall in winter

Finally we got an annoucement that we would be reaching Chicago in next 30 minutes. But the flight landed almost after 70 minutes. This was due to much snow on runway and flight traffic. It was an amazing experience for me to see the flight landing in between snow. The temparature was -15 C, yes it was -15C which we even never imagine in India. And the other thing is, it was not simply Chicago airport. It was almost as big as Hyderabad City....:). Wow....landing / take off frequency ONE MINUTE. Can you believe it?..yes its true....


Chicago Downtown

Later we were taken to a guest house in a wonderful suburb(Naperville) near Chicago downtown. There was nothing outside except snow. We got habituated in a few days to snow and US basic lifestyle. We enjoyed a lot for 1 month with 5 people as total. Everything was new including cooking...ha ha...


Chicago Downtown


Sears Tower in Chicago City

In between we got a chance to visit downtown Chicago. Wow...Amazing...Excellent....Awesome..these are the few words which we used when we stepped into the city ( it was the best because i dint visit New York by that time ). We visited SEARS tower, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world and spent sometime to feel the night view of the city. Wonderful experience as the things were new...

Enough of boring right...anyways thought of sharing this stuff....

To be Continued......