When I applied for my PTO few months back it was supposed to hang out with N and spend time with her. With barely 1 good month of summer holidays she has lot of stuff that she wants to do on her own that may or may not involve me. When I realized she doesn’t want to go to downtown and do the usual spiel that i like to do every odd summer i took off on my own. Yes it was a solo mini one day trip to the City of Chicago. If there’s anything I like more than being in Ahmedabad or Pune, India now - I think it is to roam around in Chicago downtown. I started after a doctor’s appointment with J dropping me to catch the 1:30 pm metra. Found some aunties finding each other and chatting like they used to on trains and buses in India and thought “oh, I need sometime to be with my thoughts I am probably better off away from the group. After boarding the train I found myself in a very warm compartment where the windows kept making the compartment hotter with every passing minute. ...
