Wednesday 12 November, 2008

Airports in 2008

As I am travelling back from San Jose I was comparing the San Jose airport to the old Bangalore airport (guess its got something to do with "silicon valley" again... beleive me .. its not any better than that.. another thing in common between the two silicon cities is that San Jose is about to have a rennovated airport too!). That said.. I also wondered if I had the right to comment about airports and I started counting the airports I have seen in 2008... and I was pleaseantly surprised by the number!!! Here is a list of the airports:

  1. State College (SCE)- all through the yr for obvious reasons
  2. Washington DC (IAD) (in March to attend ASPLOS conference in Seattle)
  3. Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) (in March, May, July, Aug.. for ASPLOS conference and MSR internship)
  4. New York (JFK) (in May on my way to Bangalore)
  5. Mumbai (BOM) (in May on my way to Bangalore)
  6. Bangalore (BLR-old) (Landing in Bangalore in May)
  7. Bangalore (BLR-new)(Departing Bangalore in June)
  8. Paris (CDG) (On my way to Seattle for internship)
  9. Detroit (Treavelling to State College to move into a new apartment and return to Seattle)
  10. Cincinatti (CVG) (Return from internship)
  11. Cleveland (CLE) (Return from internship)
  12. Philadelphia (PHL) (To give a talk a GSRC symposium, San Jose)
  13. Las Vegas (LVS) (part of GSRC and ICCAD conference trips to San Jose)
  14. San Jose (SJC) (GSRC and ICCAD conference trips)
  15. Phoenix (PHX) (return from San Jose - GSRC trip)
Add to this growing list.. 16. London Heathrow airport that I will pass through as part of my December India visit!!! :)