Last weekend I visited New York to meet one of my buddies. He stays in Holmes, NY. From his house, there is a 10 min drive to a point, from where one can get onto the Appalachian Trail [AT]. This is a simple 2 hour hike. But it‘s nice to have the privilege of getting onto the AT, hike for sometime, relax and come back.

The trail is pretty flat and simple. The forest is not really dense and the weather is just perfect for hiking. There is a good deer population in this part of the trail. Towards the end of the hike, there is a decent sized lake/pond. Some people go fishing here. But otherwise it‘s just clam and beautiful.

The leaves have not yet started changing the color and the hunting season is not yet started. So, if anyone is planning hike around this place, I would recommend, this is the best time.

I‘m planning to hike the Catskills next.

For two years I worked on a project without seeing any of my counterparts on the other side of the globe. We used to have long phone/IM conversations. We used to share photos and discuss our hobbies. Isn‘t it obvious for the mind to draw an image of the person based on these various interactions? Well, my mind did so.

Once these images were built up, I started interacting with these images. Everything seemed to be going well. And, all of a sudden one day, I happened to travel to the other side of the globe and see these images turn into reality.

Well, I must admit that the images I had were quite different from the actual people. It took me sometime to actually realize that I was communicating with the real person and not their images.

I‘m really amazed how the mind builds up these images. The kind of minute details it remembers and associated with these images is beyond my reasoning.

Happy tripping!