My last Travelogue.

I firmly believe in all our Hindu deities particularly Lord Shiv-Parvati, Shree Ram-Sita, Shree Krishna-Radha, Hanimanji & Shree Ganeshji. But I have faith & love in my Sadguru Lord Sainath. I also know from the core of my heart that Sadguru Sainath is God incarnate. Thus He is Ram, Krishna, Shankar, Hanuman, Ganesh and Maa Durga. My inner self says that I visited totally a different country at this age due to Lord Sai's Grace and Sai provided Ch. Saurabh and Nutan as medium. Thanks to them and Lord Sai.
My important visit to Boston began at 2.00 p.m. on 16.07.10. We reached Marlborough, where Ch. Madhup and Neha reside. These days my brother Ratan and his wife Pushpa have come to their son's house from India. We reached at 8.30 p.m. and everyone was eagerly waiting for us. We had good dinner and slept well in the night.
The next morning we set for Boston after heavy breakfast. Boston is thirty miles away from Marlborough. We took Trolley for city view. Our site-seeing tour was very satisfying, because its driver-cum-guide was excellent in his description. This tour included free Boston Harbor Cruise. We enjoyed a forty five minutes site-seeing cruise with panoramic views of Boston city.
Our Trolley Stops were about fifteen, but we alighted at only five Stops. These were --Old State House Museum, Copley Square/Back Bay, Trinity Church, Copley Place mall Cambridge/MIT/Harvard and Beacon Hills' Boston Common. First we saw Massachusetts Institute of Technology minutely and sensed its magnanimity. We closely observed its class-rooms and campus. Then we went from Red line Subway to Harvard Square. We reached Harvard University Campus. It was good experience to travel in Subway Train. Our Cruise journey was very pleasant. We returned home and took evening tea with tasty cutlets. Our dinner prepared by Pushpa & Neha was also wonderful.
Next morning we all ( eight of us) set for sightseeing near Marlborough. We went to Laxmi temple and Hopkinton State Park. This park is very huge and river beside it gives a cool look. We took our lunch at as Indian Restaurant. Its Jalebi was good. Here we parted from Ratan's family and set for Concord.
Ch.Saurabh drove us to The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts. It is the house of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who drafted his essay " Nature"while living here. Navin's doctorate is on Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote a number of stories while living at The Old Manse in 1940s. The landscape Hawthorne describes is recognizable today. Henry David Thoreau's vegetable garden planted in 1842 as a wedding gift to the Hawthorns, has been restored in the same location. The Concord River still flows serenely past The manse and under the famous North Bridge. It was a guided house tour that tells the story of manse, beginning in 1770.
We came back home in the evening. I liked my Boston trip and want to give hearty thanks to Nutan, Saurabh and Ratan's family.
One notable point about USA is that here we find no " Presswala". Everyone has to iron one's clothes and you will press table with iron machine in each house & hotel.
Our very pleasant and happy USA sojourn is coming to an end. This has been a life-time experience both for me and my husband. Before taking the flight for Delhi from Newark Airport on the evening of 27th July we will visit Shree Sai Nath temple in New York on "Guru Poornima" on Sunday, 25th July to thank Baba for all that He has given us and to pray for the fulfillment of the wishes of my loving children, Sai Namah.

S.MISRA.