From San Francisco Airport to Home in Mill Valley – 11 Apr 08

From the San Francisco Airport, our son drove us down to Mill Valley in his Toyota Camry, a spacious prestigious black car better equipped than a Toyata Carolla, back home. The drive was simply wonderful and we instantly fell in love with San Francisco and its Bay Area. When we came out of the Airport there were at least 5 flyovers I think, one on top of the other and then on to Highway no 101 an amazing Freeway ,with 5 lanes for incoming and five lanes for outgoing traffic ,where cars were traveling at speeds of a minimum of 70 to 80 miles per hour. Incidentally the Americans believe in the F.P.S. (Foot Pound System) and not M.K.S. (Metric Kgs System). And Americans do not believe in traveling on the left. They believe in right hand travel.

From the Airport we had to travel North across the Golden Gate Bridge, built in 1937 across the Pacific Ocean - a technological marvel. Had only read about it in my Geography book in school and here I was traveling through it .The structure was simply amazing. And as we sped past the Golden Gate bridge, I was thinking about Swami all the time, in awe, about the wonderful and totally different beautiful aspect of His creation and thanking Him for granting Latha and me the privilege of coming to this part of His World and for enjoying the same.

We traveled further North before arriving at Mill valley, a suburb of San Francisco in which my son had a taken a two bedroom Apartment and a drawing room plus a kitchen .He had shifted from his bachelor's one room apartment to this apartment only recently so that we could be accommodated for our 6 month stay. (For locating us go to http://www.maps.google.com/ and type Mill Valley and follow instructions on the map).

We were home in 25 minutes - a complex of 10 to 12 dwelling units called the Reed Boulevard. Each dwelling unit is single storeyed but having four two bedroom apartments each .And each apartment has a drawing room (Sai has his own 56 inch plasma flat TV) two bedrooms, a well equipped kitchen with electric heaters / a microwave oven / large refrigerator, a clean excellent bathroom, with a 24 hour hot and cold water suppy.We just started unpacking our luggage quite excited. Completely forgot about the jet lag .We then had a very pleasant shower and changed and Sai cooked some excellent Rajma for us .We had to use two Rajais in the night .Boy was it cold!! About 45 deg Fahrenheit i.e., about 8 deg centigrade. Winter had still not left the city and was in the process.

We slept peacefully quite late that night talking talking about Secunderabad.