We reached Watkins Glen, the hiking place, around 11:45 AM. “Glen” comes from an old Gaelic word meaning small, narrow and secluded valley. It is 12,000 years old pace with very nice water falls, sedimentary rocks and surroundings. The ambiance was so beautiful with fall colors all around!!! Everyone was crazy!!! (Except Amith who hurt his ankle). There are 2 main trails, Gorge trail and Indian trail. We took Gorge Trail while going and Indian trail while coming back.

The hiking starts with Spiral Tunnel, which ends at the beginning of Sentry Bridge that take us to Gorge trail. On the way we saw Heart-shaped pond, Cavern cascade, Rainbow Falls, Frowning Cliff, Lover’s Lane, Central cascade, Mile Point Bridge, South rim trail etc. We met a group of nicely dressed American ajjis, one of them were celebrating her Birth day . We took a snap with them and wished Happy B’Day to B’day-Girl .

We reached our destination around 1:45 PM, by that time all Veg-sandwich were gone We took few fall color snaps first and then started our so called lunch. We had muffins, tortillas, baby carrots, apples and chocolates. After lunch we played catch-catch for some time and started walking back around 2:15 PM. This time we took Indian trail. This trail is similar to Indian forests (may be that’s the reason it is named Indian trail). Watching Fall colors on this trail is real joy!! We took few more snaps on the way and reached bus-stop by 3:15 PM. Bus started around 3:45 PM. we had a plan of playing Antakshari, but we had to end our antakshari in the middle, as we got warning from one of the passengers, not to make noise!!! (Trip mein aaye toh sone kyaa bus mein???). Bus reached RIT Campus around 5:15 PM and then dropped us @ Rustic Village around 5:30 PM. We had a nice time. Thanks to Amith and Teju for registering my name .

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First of all, I thank my readers for the overwhelming response and comments and apologies if I am not up to the mark.

After my blog, Shashi launched his online radio and now one more good news for all you, Manoj Kotibhaskar urf Mannya or Manu urf ammaNNi paapu (that’s how I call him), bestest friend of mine, got appreciation letter from his product manager yesterday. Manoj is currently working for Cognizant Technology Solutions, now in California.

Congratulations Mannya!!!!! Hope to see u in MANAGER’s position soon!!!

Thanks to Shashi for sharing such a wonderful news with me and others, You can find the appreciation letter and pics of chocolates that Manoj got because of his sincerely-dedicated-hard work!!!

(I hope Shashi took these photos after finishing some of the chocolates )

PS: The Product manager is a girl , name Janet and 26 years old!!! Also Single!!!

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