Day 3 - Aswin enters the Franklin Corner Road and Oak Tree Road

Day 3

Aswin enters Franklin Corner Road and the Oak Tree Road!

It was a nice and bright sunny day. I got up at around 6.30 AM and was ready for breakfast at 8.00 AM. We decided to have the breakfast at the hotel itself. They were serving a buffet breakfast for 15 USD. I took some Orange juice, kellogs raisin flakes with milk, French fries and some other things which I dunno the names! But it was good and today we decided to use the big (SUV) which Nishant had rented out to go to our business visit. We were going to a company called Voxware in FRANKLIN CORNER ROAD! Feel like kicking me? Yes, too bad a suspense! All others were well dressed in formals / business casuals. I was the only one in T-Banian and Cargos. It suited me as my formals were tight! We reached our destination in around 20 mins.

Voxware was a small office. They had rented a part of a very tiny building. But we had a warm welcome and the rest of the day “censored” (Company Confidential). We had Pizza for lunch and it was so huge that, even 4 of us couldn’t finish it off. We were out of Voxware by 5 PM and came back to Hotel. Me and Anand decided to have an Indian dinner – south Indian to be precise. Nishant was saying about a road in New Jersey which was full of Indian restaurants and shops.

Yes, you guessed it right! It is the OAK TREE Road! We searched for some good south Indian restaurants online and all reviews pointed “Swagath Cuisine” as a good one. We started at around 7 PM from the hotel and it was around 25 miles far. We reached the place in around half hour. You get a feel of India there. There were many Indian hotels. Dakshin Express, Sukhadias, Dhaba House, to name a few. We found the swagath cuisine without much effort.

Swagath Cuisine – Nice, clean and small restaurant. We could find out easily that it was a kannada hotel from a glimpse of the menu. I ordered a Mysore Paper Masala Dosa and Hot Puri Bhaji.

To say it was good, except the chutney which was made of dry coconuts. Cooking experts like me would understand that! Puris were awesome and 3 large ones were served with Masala, Chole and Dhal.

After that Indiana meal, with a happy smile back on my face (very hard to survive on Sandwiches and burgers!) we retreated. It was fun back way. We saw some big time bike races on the US 1 freeway (highways are called freeways here) Very big bikes – 800 -1000cc ones. Some of them were driving at around 80-100 miles / hour and were literally racing. A feeling of panic and excitement gushed through my mind. But the whole incident lasted for a minute and back to normality. We reached back hotel by 11 PM and were too tired to even check my emails.

Yesterday, I got a calling card of Reliance to call India. For 5 USD, you can talk upto 65-70 mins (7.9 cents / minute) Called up home and had a disappointed that could not speak to Dad and Mom first time. Called them again and Dad picked the call. Spoke to him a lot about the US adventures, but couldn’t get Mom as she was busy with her tuitions.

Felt happy after the call, was able to get a strong sense of happiness from my Dad’s talk. Eagerly waiting to call my Mom tomorrow. Hope she’s not again caught in her tuitions today.

Lets see what’s in Store for me tomorrow!

Watch out for Day 4 - “Oak Tree Road – The Indian USA”