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A road trip to remember

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This is my story of my family's first road trip in US we planned in just 2 days, covering 4 National Parks and 5 states where we will be travelling a total distance of 2200 miles in 8 days. Our trip to India we had planned all summer was cancelled at the very last moment, due to some visa issues. All our bags were packed and the mood in the house was gloomy to put it mildly. My father was planning to go extreme on the road trip. His idea of the road trip was to travel the breadth of America from West to East, starting from Seattle in Washington to Boston in  Massachusetts. To put it into perspective that would mean a distance of 3,045 miles one way and then back. That would be just 6 days one way drive even if we drove like 500 miles per day with my younger brother who is just 4 years old. Thankfully some sense got into him, and we decided to abandon the plan. So, what actually ended up happening was a more planned trip, where we covered 250 miles per day and enjoyed the ...

A Visit to Palm springs

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It was early in the morning, and I woke up to the sound of my mom's footsteps going to the kitchen. I tried to go back to sleep but I just couldn't because I was too excited to go to Palm Springs, California. We had already packed our bags the night before and our uncle was coming to drop us off to the airport, where we will be meeting our friends and fly together. It was the middle of December and departures were all backed up, like the Wall Street had just closed for the trading day.  After 40 minutes we arrived a SeaTac international airport and I hugged my uncle, and we went into the Alaska airlines section. The SeaTac airport is spread in an area of 2500 acres and has 3 runways. The airport entered service in 1949 and is owned by port of Seattle.  There we checked in for our flight and we waited for our other friend's family to come. Once they arrived, they checked in and we all went to security check and then we went on a tram to the N gates, our gate was n11. Once ...

cap seller and the monkeys

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 Once a man named Jack was going to sell caps in Hyderabad, India. He was going from Goa; it was a total of 4 hours journey. After he had walked for 3hours with stops at rest areas when he was just 40 minutes away from Hyderabad he stopped to rest under a tree, and he soon fell asleep. Then some monkeys which were playing in the tree which the cap seller was sleeping under saw the basket and they curiously approached the basket. Then one of the monkeys opened the lid and saw 9 caps and the monkeys playfully took all the caps from the basket and started making a racket. Jack woke up and saw the basket which held caps was empty. He was shocked, when he looked up, he saw that the monkeys were wearing the caps. They were dancing in the tree. He tried to get the caps by giving the monkeys bananas but that did not work. After a few more attempts of getting the caps from the monkeys he threw the cap he was wearing on the ground in anger and the monkeys also threw the caps they were wearin...