Wiser To Think

US East Coast Travelogue 4 - Philadelphia, A city of Declaration of Independence of America, its where it all started! It was end of May month, days were getting longer, giving ample opportunity for tourists to roam around east coast of United states. After spending 2 days in New York, we had stopped on outskirts of Edison City in New Jersey. City is named after famous electricity bulb inventor ‘Thomas Edison’. From today onwards we were going to start the journey covering 7 states and 4 major cities Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Niagara in New York State and Boston in Massachusetts. As they say, its journey that should be enjoyable and not only the destinations, schedule was jam packed, everyone on the bus was asked to follow strict timelines. Departure to Philadelphia was scheduled at around 6.15AM in morning, no time for lazy mornings, get ready, pack your bags and board the bus was the order. I opened window sliders around 5AM to check Sun rise and to my su...

US East Coast Travelogue 3 - New York, Iconic and beautiful city!! In Continuation of Travelogue 2... We started our day with Empire state building, going up on 86 th  floor to watch over the NY City, after airport like check up and long queue.. clear sky and Manhattan on plate for breakfast, believe me you won't have seen such a view before. You can see whole Manhattan from up there, standing tall among them is newly constructed $2B One World Trade Center. 'Amazing' would be the perfect word to describe it!! There was 104th floor view as well but we didn't take that because of time constraints. Then we passed by Wall Street and New York Stock Exchange building, taking a stop near bull statue on Wall Street to get the feel of wealthiest street in the world. If you have seen these bulls next to stock exchanges, then you would know those are raging bulls… indicating the confidence in stock market and eventually in the economy of country.. bu...

US East Coast Travelogue 2 - New York. Lights, Camera, Action!! New York!! City of Dreams, money, power, towers, icons, diversity, languages, cultures!! No matter what corner of world you are but you must have heard about New York. City is always in news for one reason or another. Shared are my experiences from visit to New York! It’s been 2 weeks but it feels as if we were there yesterday. We started our journey to New York from Los Angeles, the Hollywood city. It took 5 hrs 30 mins of flight time to reach JFK, i was a bit anxious about how would we manage travel that night after a long day flight, Caption of flight announced our landing and wished everyone on-board a happy journey.. exactly what we were there for. Excitement in crowd was palpable, it was long weekend in US and most of passengers might have come for vacation is what i felt. We picked our bags from airport and our tour guide was ready to pick us up, starting our journey from JFK itself. Me and ...