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This is related to the last week trip we had here to North California and Oregon.

1419 miles of drive, 77 hours of hectic travel, 610$ money spent,

A photo of us with the car through the famous Redwood forest drive thru tree - PRICELESS

Of course, rest of the places seen - Oregon caves, Crater lake, Lassen Volcanic park, Redwood forest - were all priceless. I will write a separate detailed blog on that trip later this week.

Desi joke - No foreigners

There is this new desi joke going around in our apartment complex. I thought I will share out here.
Our apartment complex is almost desi complex due to the fact that this apartment complex (address) lies in a good school district (Cupertino). Invariably, all Indians for the sake of good schools, stay in this apartment complex, even though they have been here in the US for a long time. The fact that APPLE (Ipod and MAC) office is close by is another factor.
Out of the 240 apartments here, atleast 200 are occupied by Indians, few chinese and very few americans.
Recently, an American was searching for a particular "Mr Smith" who is suppose to stay in the apartment complex. He was a little lost and he needed to check in which block that person lived. He knocked on one of the doors and to his tough luck, an Indian desi's parent (60+ year old) man opened the door.

American : " Do you know in which building Mr. Smith leaves?"
Indian parent (after a long pause) : "There are NO foreigners in this apartment complex"
American : Confused look on his face mumbled a thanks and walked away muttering #@$%$#@$%$

SHIRTS from around the world !!

Recently went to this neighbourhood shopping place to buy some shirts and t-shirts. It was the first time I was shopping for clothes after landing here in US. Since it was more than 8 months, thought it was time to buy some clothes and also as Ganesha festival was nearing.

We went to local "Kohl's" shopping mall. I bought 2 shirts and 4 t-shirts. the emphasis was more on getting the correct size shirts as the sizes here are usually XL,XXL, XXXL. It is difficult to get S, M sizes for me. I Managed to get some good looking and quality shirts.

I did not look much into them when I bought. When I wore the first of these shirts, while removing the tag, I noticed the label, "Made in Bangladesh". I became curious and looked at all the 6 shirts I had bought and guess what,each of them were made in a different country and none were made in USA.Truely global... :-)
For the curious, here are the 6 countries.

Bangladesh, India, Taiwan, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, (Central American countries).

Here is a photo with the Indian t-shirt on - at Crater Lake.