Motorcycle diary of Joy Dutta

California, here I come… after those long days of daydreaming…

The flight was fine, but food is never good on a flight, and that too it was for purchase only, except juices on which I survived the 6 hours. Not only that, my laptop’s hard disk failed right when I desperately needed to kill some time.

Loved the weather right out of the SFO airport. The runway is just beside the SF bay and from the aisle seating, it looked like the plane was landing over water.

The GPS took some time to get synced up with the satellites, and in the meantime the cab driver took directions from the hotel. But he made two mistakes, and we could find the hotel only using my GPS. He was indeed in awe that two guys from New York was telling him where to go !

Both myself and Dhyanesh was hungry but was not sure if there was a food allowance. Yahoo is paying $180 per head per night on the hotel room (club level, with king size bed) but we cant even afford eating in a restaurant everyday. With the help of the GPS, we found “Panchavati Indian veg restaurant” 0.7 miles away and just headed for it. A few confused turns in the quagmire of flyovers and more than a mile later we landed in a very south-Indian smelling restaurant and gave our orders for “Panchavati special” dish - a mouthwatering masala dosa, one idli and one vada. I had it after 2 long years. Priceless.

Forgot to mention, there is a Lockheed Martin plant just opposite our hotel (Sheraton Sunnyvale). It was really cool to see two low flying aircrafts which seemed to be from a bygone era.

It is just an awesome place with just the right weather, but too bad I am bikeless now. Really hurts to see all those power packed machines go zooming by…

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