We arrived in Chattanooga, TN taking a long circuitous route from Portland to Seattle, Seattle to Chicago, Chicago to Atlanta by plane and then from Atlanta to Chattanooga by road. My friend had come to Atlanta airport to receive us. The journey was uneventful and boring except for a glitch on Atlanta airport when one of my checked-in bag didn’t show up. But it turned up a few minutes later (being small it got lost in a pile of luggage). All my cameras, PDA and GPS were in this bag. So it would have made me real upset without my cameras and GPS.

We reached my friend’s home in a suburb of Chattanooga on Dec 3 at 2pm. We were awake for a long time and couldn’t really sleep well on the red-eye flights so we rested for the rest of the day having long chats, watching photos on a projector and playing with my friend’s two cats. Isha really enjoyed playing with the cats after a little anxiety in the beginning.