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When I finished my A to Z challenge, I made a vow. I decided I would use my laptop to blog and my new digital camera to take pictures. It looks like, it is going to be some time before I get the hang of those on a regular basis. I now have a new…
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For the last day of my challenge, a tough letter, the letter Z, I could have just gone with my travels to the zoo. I could have even added a picture of a zebra, and it would have been wonderful. It would have satisfied my need to write about a place that begins with the…
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Our family frequents a state park, Ohiopyle State Park. The Youghiogheny River Trail has 27 miles of trail in the park. It is part of the Greater Allegheny Passage, which connects Pittsburgh and Maryland. The past few summers, we have hiked bits and pieces and enjoyed the gush of the water flowing. I have blogged…
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The letter for today is X. I have never been to a place beginning with X, as far as I can remember. But I have been to a place that has an X in it, and that is what I am going to write about. My family, or should I say my dad, my husband,…
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Living in the United States, finding a place you have traveled to beginning with the letter W is easy. According to my search on the internet, there are 88 cities and towns named Washington. This does not include counties and streets. We visited Washington, DC, the capital city, when my special boy was just six…
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We visited Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, last month. At that time, I was planning my theme for the challenge, and I immediately thought V was for Virginia. I then went through my pictures and was surprised to see we had made a number of other visits to Virginia without my realizing it. We had taken…
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I live in a town that begins with the letter “U.”. I travel to places like libraries and playgrounds that begin with that letter. But I did not want to write about my place since I write a lot about it on a daily basis on my blog. When I asked my husband what place…
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The pandemic had celebrated its one-year anniversary. Our entire family has had their vaccination. We decided to cross Pennsylvania and enjoy a weekend out. We read on CNN that West Virginia’s New River Gorge is now recognized as a national park. It looked close and outdoors. So we booked a room and decided to enjoy…
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Today’s post is not what I planned on making. This was a last-minute decision that I made just a few hours ago. I am not going to talk about hundreds of miles of traveling today. Just a 60-mile round trip, we try to make it to our local Sri Venkateshwara Temple. Sri Venkateshwara Temple is…
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The spring flowers are in full bloom. I think it is a bit early, but we are all enjoying it. I see many people posting their blooming trees. With spring flowers, allergies come behind them. I have burning eyes. My boy’s behavior changes. The mood swings and anxiety increase. So this week was all about…
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My dad came to help me out one winter. It was really cold, and we did not have many options to take him anywhere. We really had to choose indoor places, and one place that we visited was The Breakers.The Breakers, a mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, belonged to the Vanderbilt family. The mansion was…
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For 13 years, we lived in the Boston suburbs. For the first seven years, we lived in a place called Quincy. Quincy is not a town, but a city. There are four red line stops: Quincy Center, Quincy Adams, Wollaston, and North Quincy. My son attended Quincy Public Schools. They had started an autism classroom,…
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My husband is from Pondicherry, India. Our marriage engagement happened here. The British ruled the entire country; some portions were controlled by the French. Pondicherry was one that was ruled by the French. The architecture of the city is beautiful. It was on my engagement day that I visited the city for the first time.…
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When I thought about the letter “O,” I just remembered Ontario. I then asked my husband to name a place that began with the letter; he replied, Oregon. Portland, Oregon, is the first place we lived in the US. Who can forget their first experience of living in a new country? My memory of the…
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We have been to the state of New York many times. We have been to New York City many times. We have been on top of the Empire State Building. We had also been on top of the World Trade Center before it came crashing down. We have been to Times Square and seen the…
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When my special boy was three, we asked my mom to come and help us. When my mom came, we took that as an opportunity to see more places than ever. My husband had a friend at work who suggested places we could visit while she was here. Most of those trips were just day-to-day.…
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Mother Nature provided us with an extraordinary phenomenon this week. We had a partial solar eclipse on Monday. Science has really advanced. We were able to watch the eclipse with our special glasses. We also had heavy spring rains this week. In fact, it was really scary, with mudslides around the region. The tulips really…
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Our family has been to all five Great Lakes. We achieved this goal last summer. I am not going to write about this. Lake Champlain was one of the first big lakes we visited. We were in Vermont to see the fall colors. We spent a beautiful evening on its shore in Burlington, Vermont. Ben…
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My younger son’s Upanayanam took place in Mysore, Karnataka, with our Guru’s blessings. It was such a hard ordeal working out the details with our special boy. But all worked out great. We did put him through a lot of strict religious ordeals, but he did not fight or question them. My younger one thoroughly…
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The letter “J” was very tricky. I had to look into my phone’s photo album. It did jog up my memory about the places I had visited. We had dinner in Nashville on our road trip from Pittsburgh to Dallas. We chose to stay at a place called Jackson, Tennessee. We always choose Marriot’s chain…
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