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My Fourth Trip to the US- What did it teach me.

In the last five years I have travelled four times to the United States of America and this time to the Columbia University, New York. The one year I missed was in 2013 where I traveled to Melbourne and New England, Australia. Every time, I travel to US or any other countries abroad, I always struggle with visa processing activities. It would be free and easy to travel if we forgo the hassle of requiring a visa, but it is a territorial marks we want to create requiring such documents to visit any country apart from which you are citizens of and I respect that.

Thats not what I'm suppose to write, my point was, what an invention human beings made. A steel can fly and there are devices with which they have routes to ensure safety of all the people on board. Ground people makes sure that all engines, even the smallest of the parts, are thoroughly checked and baggages are efficiently segregated and safely transferred to next flight in which the owner boards. A transportation mechanism with efficient system is built and run.

Whenever I travel abroad, I always make a point to halt a night or two at Bangkok as this is the only place where I do whatsoever shopping I need to do as I hate doing shopping while on official trips. At Bangkok, right after stepping out of flight, clearing the immigration and customs I directly look at the signage of Train and move ahead. I rarely travel by Taxi or Tuktuk while at Bangkok. My favorite shopping places are all very well connected by BTS (Bangkok Mass Transit System) or by MRT (Mass Rapid Transit). Both are just the same except that when traveling in BTS you realize that cars travels beneath you and in MRT cars travels overhead you. Now, what a system or rather I would say what an invention. Humans can do everything right from flying and constructing huge plate forms and tunnels underground.

New Delhi, India is also catching up with MRT and Sky train, the only difference is in Delhi they are known as DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) or generally Metro. The only difference is Metro stations in Delhi doesn't connect directly to shopping malls. If this is done, it would add to further comfort of the tourists or visitors.

Thats all for now, I thought I was again not being active to blogging, thus, tried to at-least write something.

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