Thu, Jun 11th, 2009
Since we could not see Rushmore lit by the night, we were hoping to at least have a decent day time visit, but the forecast didn’t bode well. It was supposed to start cloudy but turn rainy pretty soon. We left very early and reached there by 9 am. There were already [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Day 6: Another cold and rainy day in South Dakota
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Day 5: Cold and rainy South Dakota
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Wed, June 10th, 2009
Today was a total washout. Our planned agenda was to visit the Badlands National Park and the Minuteman Missile national Historic site (a nuclear missile launch control facility from the Cold war days). Both were adjacent to each other and after visiting both, we were to drive on to Rapid City for [...]
Day 4: The never ending drive to South Dakota
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Tue, June 9th, 2009
Today was just another marathon drive and the kids did just wonderful. Yes, there were periods of whining and fighting, but overall, it wasn’t too bad.
We had thought we will fit in some more Chicago sight seeing in the morning before leaving, but it was a cloudy and foggy day, so decided [...]
Day 3: An afternoon in the Windy City
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Mon, June 8th, 2009
We left Ann Arbor around 10.45 am. Drive to Chicago was uneventful. But closer to Chicago, there was a lot of traffic and the last 20 miles or so took very long. Reminded me of our very similar experience in Toronto. We checked into the Embassy suites in downtown around 3 pm. [...]
Day 2: In and around Ann Arbor
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Sun, June 7th, 2009
Today was a totally relaxing day. Last night, we slept only around 4 am, catching up with friends after 3 years. So, we woke up late (well, as late as 4 young kids will allow us to!), had a lazy morning, mostly eating one thing or the other. It was cloudy and [...]
On the road
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Sat, June 6th, 2009
So, we embarked on our two week cross country road-trip today. It was a "failure to launch" story – we had to delay it by a day. This also meant that we had to cut out the first leg of the trip since we were late to begin. I feel very ill [...]
Saying farewell to our home of 8.5 years
Posted in home, tagged farewell, moving on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sat, June 6th 2009
After the misadventures of the previous day, we woke up early and started loading up the remaining things in the car. We had more things to donate at the library, the salvation army etc. PK ran those errands and also dropped off our second large bag at the friend’s house. They must [...]
Utter chaos
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We were hoping to clear out the house by 3.30 pm or so and set out on our cross country road trip. PK dropped SK off at day care in the morning, hoping to get uninterrupted time to finish off the last chores. AK was at a friend’s house, so I did work at a [...]
Final preparations
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The last week has been a blur. Every night we have been working like crazy, trying to empty out the house. Since we are working during the day and attending to the kids in the evenings, the tasks related to the move have to be done after 9 pm. We have barely [...]
test post
Posted in fun, tagged experiment, test on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m trying out the "post by email" feature. May be useful on the road where I probably will not have a lot of time to do pretty posts with lot of formatting.
