Into the wild

Well after i finally recovered from that flight...we went with my bros friend for a nice hike....a guy named Emrey who used to be a guitar player in a major metal band in turkey...very cool fellow. We took a hour long train ride to some nice small town...it looks exactly like the movies....the town is full of nice people and small shops and stuff like that...and everyone is friendly and knows each other....actually everyone here in NY is very friendly...and i mean to ppl in general...like to waiters and sweepers and other people who mumbaikars tend to be very rude too.....that's what i like best about firangis...they are courteous to everyone :)



Anyways back to the hike....we stopped at the town and had a quick second breakfast for our strength......then was 20 minute walk to the trail for the trek....luckily was a weekday so the trail was empty except for a few we kept bumping into now and then...but after Bombay crowds nothing can get crowded anyways.


There are like 3-4 different paths you can take for the trek...each of a different distance....we chose the shortest one which was about 2.5 hours one way, as we needed to get back and catch the train....it was the most beautiful trek i have ever been on....really felt close to nature....my bro and Emrey both teach at film school..so my bro brought some cameras and was doing something called stop motion film...will send it to you when he develops the roll on Monday...and Emrey is a sound guy...so had gotten some heavy duty recorder and was recording the sounds of the forest...all the birds and bugs and trees and water....it was nice!! we kept taking breaks during our trek just to enjoy things around us...i loved trekking with those fellows...they were not rushing but enjoying it!!



After the trek we caught the 7 o clock train to NY..when my bro decided he wanted to watch a film....so instead of heading home..we go to the multiplex and get tickets for Hancock...it was an ok movie.....the theaters here play like loads of ads and previews before the movie...so if you thought Bombay was bad...think again....:) Hancock got over at 11:30 ppm...when my bro decided we should try and sneak into the movie Hellboy and watch that one as well...so well, we did :)....hey for the ticket prices we deserve two movies....hellboy was really nice....we finally left the theater at 1:30 odd in the morning. I hadn't had dinner...so my bro took me to a place nearby for pizza....yummy :) NY was buzzing....well till 3, when my bro and me finally headed home.


I went to sleep and woke in the afternoon ......went to get my phone sim card and some other work...then returned to my bros girlfriends apartment to watch a movie. at 7 ish in the evening we went for a nice walk in the park just opposite....its superb...not like the parks in Bombay...these parks are awesome! then we just got home and was helping bro make dinner. didn't do too much yesterday as my bro was not feeling too well....so just did some light shopping for groceries and such...were supposed to go to his friends wedding reception (in a bar...HAHAHAHAHH) and then to a jazz club.....but will do that some other time, we had an infestation of bed bugs....apparently that's a big deal here. so had to send all the bed linen and all my clothes (even ones i didn't wear) to the laundry...just in case there were bug eggs there....they like chicken eggs..except invisible to the naked eye and taste like bacon apparently :) watched a movie on DVD called anchorman......saw it before, but wanted to watch it again as it was soooooo funny. You need to watch it.