New apartment in California
Moved in to a 2-bedroom 2-bathroom apt, to be shared with two friends. Got a whole bedroom to myself, my first time in life having my own private space. Shopped for home essentials like I was settling down. Starting from shower curtain, bought comforter, pillow, cooking utensils, dishes and groceries to jump-start a life very different from the out-of-suitcase grad student life I was tired of.
Uddhav and Piyush, the other guys will join me in a few weeks. Piyush will be working in my team at Yahoo. He graduated with me from Stony Brook. Uddhav will graduate from USF in May and will be working for SAP. He is one of the guys I stayed with during last summer.
The bike is serving just fine to haul stuff home. As long I am not bringing furnitures home I wont be needing a cage, errr a four-wheeled entrapment. I tied a floor lamp kit, 12-pk toilet rolls and even a 13-gal trash can to the bike and it was just fine to ride 6 miles back home, as long as I could ignore the gasps from the cage drivers all around.
It is just great to be here, only that the astronomical prices of real estate continue to frustrate me. I have been longing for a personal garage with a dedicated section for tools and equipments and if this was Texas or Arizona I could have bought a small house very soon and paid EMI similar to the rent I will be paying here for a long time.
I am overwhelmed just to think of the possibilities of riding destinations and roads. So much more choices than I had back in Long Island. It would take me some time to write up my epic trip and think calmly about the rides ahead.