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Day 16 - Connecticut

I know its been a long time since i posted this. LOTs to catch up ... so lets get right to it ...

Interestingly we woke up pretty early around 8 - 8:30am, even though we slept so late last night. Not sure what our plans were for the day, the laziness was sort of leading the day. Deepti made us awesome breakfast and tea, and was insisting to stay for the weekend as much as she could. We finally got ready and left by 11:30am. Vivaan was so excited to sit and start the motorcycle. Everything was so much fun! We are looking forward for our next meet up, hopefully in Bay Area next time. Love you guys!

After yesterday's terrifying and exhausting traffic, we decided to take the back roads today. We started on a gps route with the avoid-the-highway option. It was actually very nice going through the internal roads. The weather was nice too. It just rained before we started.

But after a while, we thought of covering some distance first, and may be then taking the inner roads. The roads so far were nice, but all residential and too slow to do it all day. We ended up on the same freeway again : I-90. And obviously it quickly turned into a parking lot. To top it off, we got rains too. Soaking-us-wet rains. So glad to have bought the frogg togg pants. But you know what happens when it pours. You get wet anyway. With the awkward wet clothes we finally were able to cross the traffic, the rain and the stupid stupid I-90. It became a little nice after that. Weather wise that is. With the wind, we were able to somewhat dry ourselves. By now we were in Connecticut.

For some reason I always thought Connecticut is not a big state. It's pretty huge actually. In fact Hartford seemed to be quite a big city. We stopped on the way for quick lunch at BK. While I was waiting at the picnic table right outside of BK, an old couple walks out of the store. Not knowing I was sitting right across at the table, the guy says to his wife, now this is the bike I would love to have. The woman knew I was sitting right there, while he was looking at the bike, and was quite amused with it. Finally she had to say, the owner is sitting right there. We had a good laugh at it.

Then started the after lunch sluggishness. Boy it's hard to ride. I was feeling super sleepy. Not sure if this was lunch or the lack of sleep. We took a rest stop but the call for sleep was just too much. We decided to ride just a little more and then call it a day. Found a La Quinta in Stamford, which was only about an hour ride. But the last hour of the ride is what is always so painful. The sleepy head, worsening traffic, increasing humidity and temperatures rising to upper 80s. Heavy traffic while everyone was driving 15mph more than the posted limit. I was just waiting to get done with it. We finally did. When Kuntal got off from the bike, she said, I'm not going on freeways anymore! Yup, not having so much fun. Slept within few minutes of reaching hotel. Yup, it was only 7:30pm. Woke up later again and got a sandwich from the City Limits diner downstairs. Back asleep by 10:30pm. Hoping to get away from the overcrowded cities and roads soon.

It's July 18th.

It's south from here...

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Masa Lalu

Tentu saja ini bukan surat cinta, tak ada cinta dalam masa lalu yang haru.

Sebut saja ini sebuah penghargaan. Karena telah melahirkan aku yang sekarang.

Sungguh aku tak menyesal. Meski hati penuh goresan dan luka, aku coba bertahan. Namun sekarang berujung kebahagiaan.

Karenamu, aku memahami banyak rasa sendu. Dan akhirnya kini dapat merasakan kembali kebahagiaan . Dengan jujur kukatakan, luka itu masih tersisa. Namun, bukan berarti aku membenci.

Masa lalu hanya akan menjadi masa lalu. Ia takkan memiliki sedikit pun tempat untuk masa depanku.

Ini hanya bentuk apresiasiku untuk lembar-lembar kenangan di masa itu.

Aku sangat berterima kasih karena kini aku lebih mampu menghadapi dunia.

#30HariMenulisSuratCinta #Day-16