13th was a long day. Starting from sunny beaches of LA, Santa Monica, I flew towards the snow deserts of Pittsburgh via Cleveland. Landing at Cleveland was a memorable one. It was cloudy, snowing and windy with just a quarter mile visilibility. The plane was descending, but we couldn't guess where. We could not see anything until almost we actually touched the ground. The passengers actually cheered and clapped for the pilot for a safe landing!

The connecting flight to Pittsburgh, however, was cancelled, and I had to stay overnight in Cleveland. Found a cheap place and stayed over. Never saw so much of snow before..the ride to the hotel was almost driving through a river covered with snow.

I had an early morning flight, as it was scheduled, but I was wandering around the airport until early afternoon..since the whole airport was on a ground stop. Ultimately Gary, an elderly person I met while going to the hotel last night, and I decided to pool-in a car and drive down to Pittsburgh. We found another couple who were stranded like us..and they wanted to join us as well.
So it was fun drive..with no stoppages at all..except during getting our car out of the parking lot of the rental office, where it got stuck in knee-deep snow. We had to get out in chilling wind and shovel the snow and push the car to get it started. The rest of the ride was smooth, thanks for the turnpike. Equally long 14th ended with a sandwich watching movies on HBO in Pittsburgh.

BTW, bumped into couple real-super treat for the ears -

'Saang Sakhya Re' by none other than Sandeep Khare and group -
http://www.dhingana.com/albums.php?value=MTE4NA%3D%3D&category=&lookfor=MzU5NjE%3D

This group's previous albums 'Ayushyavar Bolu Kahi' and 'Divas Ase Ki' is also a delight (some songs, if not all) and for the most part couple songs in this new album are upto the expectations. WARNING: Could put to sleep if listened while making broken code work ;)

Nishabd's Rozana by BigB -
http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/movie/H001127.html

Thanks Sandhu for pointing me to this, had listened to part of it in a trailer while in India, but the complete song is a treat. Its not just the voice of BigB that makes this song special (I wouldn't argue if someone else would've sang it better), but both the lyrics and the pace of the song are good.

The raaga.com copy is apparently broken. But both the above albums can be downloaded gratis at www.cooltoad.com :)