For 3.30 alaram ringed to wake-up me. There is so much of pain and tons of remaining sleep, but if i missed the flight, whole plans will be collapsed. Come on Ramesh, Come on Wake-up.. No time to sleep.. I said to myself in order to wake up Ramesh.
For 4.15 AM i get ready to start. And I waked my colleague cum Sr.Design Engineer Mr.R.S.,
I am going with him to customer place reg the Project X.
Sharply the cab came to hotel to drop us in San Jose Airport. Reached the airport in 10 minutes drive and gave some $15 ( minimum scale )
After check-in our luggage in cargo, we went to the boarding place; after the usual checking ( remove your shoes, removes your belt, remove your ...?? what else laptop from its bag and remove the jerkin etc., reached the 'food court' after completing this formalities in 20 minutes.
Welcome to "Burger King". After few minutes looking and discussion decided to buy 2 set of 'Double Crois burger combo' with Coke ( totally $10.58).
The flight started sharply @ 6.30 AM after 5 minutes delay :D
We are traveling in Business Class. No need to say, we had very luxurious hospitality and some more juices and break fast ;)
A cub of fruits, bagel, Omelet with spinach and Apple Juice. That cup of fruits contain 2 circularly sliced orange piece, 5 seedless grape, 2 Strawberry and 2 long piece of papaya. I left the half of omelet and did not interested to ask bagel. Since just 45 minutes back only we finished breakfast in food court ;)
Reached Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport after traveling 2,069 miles in ~3.30 hours.
After turn on the mobile, in few minutes i got the call from our Indian team. I got a compliant that the porting what you done for Kernel 2.6.31 is not fitted backwardly to 2.6.21 but the previous package is fitting for both like..
Oh man, you are still in office.. Its 11.00 PM there in India. He sent the compile time snap shot in mail. I tried to log-on and answer his question before catch the next flight from here to Austin.
In the mean time i need to finish the Lunch and get the boarding pass for the next flight.. I reached the gate 1.15 hours in advance.
Opened the laptop and connected with the near by hotspot in airport. Hey what the heck its asking? It asked $6.95 to browse per day. I will be there for 15-30 minutes in connected state while there.. For that am i need to pay such amount? Oh no...
I called my man in India and asked him to send the working and non-working package in mail. I shall look at it once I reached room (in Austin)
He realized that I was on traveling. Oh goodness.. I am on the way to 'Food Court' and planned to finish the lunch on time. I got the call from my man again, and he clarified the doubts by telling the sequence after compilation. Also he told he fixed that issue by himself and now it finished the compilation successfully.. What a result.. :)
Finished the call, bought 2 set of fried rice, with spicy chicken as side dish and coke.
After all we reached again the gate C21 40 minutes advance. There is a lot of human heads on waiting. Suddenly the Delta airway boarding receptionist called my colleague by his second name in mic. He went and get the boarding pass for both of us.
:D we are the final members to get the boarding pass so we got the seat in tail end of the flight. Behind us is the 'Rest Room'. Ha ha ha.
In the meantime I called to our office in San Jose and activated the abroad calling facility to my all new Verizon LG - mobile. Its looking cool with flip type.
For 2.35 PM our flight started sharply (with out delay) and reached the Austin Airport after traveling 2,067 miles in 3.30 hours.
Reached the Austin airport and claimed our luggage and took a cab to reach Hilton Hotel in Austin Airport.
We showed the wrong address to the hotel by mistakenly, she(yes lady driver) took some 3 minutes ride to that wrong place. But we realized shortly and informed her that we gave the wrong address and showed the correct one.
She told after waiting 3 hours You guys got my turn and now told its the within the airport hotel; she told even i did not get $3 for this ( but finally she scored $10 from us for the meter reading of $8). Hmm its alright.
Finally we reached the hotel for 5.30 PM ( GMT -6) of Austin time. $190 per day, and for wi-fi free, wired internet costs $9.5 per day. We chose Wi-Fi and entered the room.
Till 8.00 PM we browsed afterwards we were so hungry. We went to the 'Food Court' situated in side the hotel itself.
Ordered Arabiatan Shrimp Pasta & Chicken Pasta with home-made salad and some the server's favourite choice dressing. He told lot of varieties.. none of the names are never heard before. So I left it to server' choice..
For starter he asked the driver what we needed. We told plain water and coke. (oops forgot to tell 'No Ice' )
He brought the drinks with 3/4 of ice cubes.. :(
Ha ha ha . After finishing all with little bit, finished our dinner with Vanilla Latte and Hot Chocolate.
Now its 2.50 AM.. Just now finished the working with one of
In San Jose to Austin travel,
Total distance covered : 3,249 Miles( ~ =5,528.75 Km. )
1 comment:
As this article is about "travelling", it could have been narrated finely..
U missed the scenery,crowd faces etc..
But a good try..
(Eventhough u had cool stuffs, hope it would burn few stomachs.. :P )
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