TRAVEL ( 2 )

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                                        Fostercity, where C and  H  are residing with their two daughters is a beautiful city ,belonging to the San meteo county of California State , United States of America.It is at a distance of twentyfive miles away on the south western direction from Sanfrancisco a major International Airport of on the western side of USA on the shores of Pacific ocean. It is the tip of a peninsula surrounded by backwaters and also protected by hills in the form of a valley with a number of ups and downs . Fostercity is on the bank of a bay in a vantage point.  This belt of America . houses  Head quarters  of many  industrial and software giants like Apple, Oracle,HP,Google, PhasebookVM ware,Intel, Selsa and many more. Naturally, there are well laid Roads and highways forming a net work for easy movements.Everywhere you are seeing only water NASA has its centre of activity here. Due to the crowding of a number of I T companies and other industrial establishments, the house rents are very high .

On 14th February 2020 Friday evening we finished our evening prayers  and dinner at Velacheri, Chennai ,H and myself became ready for the planned US trip.Tickets had been booked for Singapore Airlines to fly Chennai -- Singapore--S F O .Scheduled departure at Cennai was 11-15npm.Reporting time was 8-15pm.We were given a warm send off by Srimathi, J S and the drivers Rajkumar and Suresh ..The flight time from Chennai to Singapore was 4 hrs and 10 mts.We safelanded in S'pore at 3-25 am of Saturday corresponding to 5 50 am of    S'pore local time.We had a break of more than three hours before the connection flight to Sanfrancisco.We had enough time for our convenience.We were checked into the connecting  flight to SFO .All the employees were Mangolians, Chinies Jpanees or from Thailand and sparingly Indians.The flight  Sing ->SFO tookoff exactly at 9-15 Sing time and began its course over the pacific ocean flying in the vicinity of Thayland, China and Japan and Canada and  covered a total distance of 8603 miles at a minimum height of 35000 feet in order to avoid cliffs and obstacles.and ultimately safelanded in Sfo  aerodrome at 7 17 am on 15th February, Saturday.Cheenu came to the Airport to receive us .It was not even half hour of ride from the airport to our house/

                 (  to  be  continued  )

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