#day-14

The morning light from the window woke us up early today. It was around 6:30 or may be 7am. Neelam had made us wonderful breakfast. Milan was anxiously waiting for us in the morning. I even got a big jumpy hug from him. We got ready quickly as everyone else had to leave for office. It was wonderful to meet Nilam, her friends Deep and Ahmed, and of course the lovely Milan! We were so glad to have stopped and spend some time with them.

We were back on road by around 10:15. This time we decided to go a little north and enter back in US via the 1000 island area near Kingston. We didn’t want to go through all the Toronto downtown traffic again. We took the 401E, which pretty much hugs the Lake Ontario all the way, and took a break about every hour. Not sure what it was but we were feeling very very sleepy! I was yawning and trying to keep myself awake all the time. I’m pretty sure it was Nilam’s awesome food 😊.

As we came closer to the border, the obvious question was coming up. Will they let us in or not?? We only had our GC with us, and no passports in hand. From what we read, this was all they needed. But some websites explicitly said that we also need our passports. Not knowing what would happen, we kept riding towards the border. As we approached the border, the views of the 1000 island area were stunning. Beautiful small islands in the lake with small lake houses on it. It looked like a perfect summer vacation spot. We crossed the border and said goodbye to Canada for now. Reached the customs and border protection and found 4-5 lanes. I just went in and was waiting on the 1st lane. That happened to be the longest and seemingly the slowest lane. I was avoiding to change the lanes as was mentioned while entering Canada. Kuntal was asking to change lanes and started commenting on how these guys are so slow and mean compared to what we experienced while entering Canada. For some reason I was a bit nervous. Not knowing if they will allow us with the documents we had, or allow us but give us some grief, or turn us back altogether. We went in. Helmets off. Standard questions. Work? where? when? etc, etc, and we were in. Don’t know why these guys behave so mean & full of attitude. Not sure if they are trained to be. Kuntal noted that the guy asked when did we start from California. Not sure if that was routine questioning or if he was interested in our trip. In any case, we were in 😊. Welcome to the New York State.

Took a quick break for restroom and snacks and decided to head towards Boston. It wasn’t too far so we decided to ride up to Adirondack area for the day. We took internal roads via Hwy 12. Good break from the major roads and traffic. Luckily the road took us via some interesting Amish country. We found bunch of horse carts, people dressed in full Amish atire, folks working on the side of the roads, clothes being hang dried, etc. We were hoping to find a place to stay or eat where we could spend more time with them but unfortunately didn’t get that opportunity. Horse and cart crossing signs on the roads everywhere. Rest of the place had snowmobile signs. Looks like it gets some good amount of snow here.

Ate at Capris Pizza place in a small town of Boonville. Amazing bread sticks with butter garlic! Couldn’t find a decent place nearby so we rode down to Utica and stayed at a motel.

Teruntuk kamu, penghuni hati.

Masih ingatkah kamu awal perkenalan kita?

Bukan perkenalan yang kebetulan namun tak bisa dikatakan terencana, bukan?

Sangat singkat, kau jadikan aku wanita yang teristimewa. Meski hanya aku yang merasakan.

Astaga!

Kau pria yang hebat.

  Kesepian.

Mungkin ini yang paling dirasakan kala penyemangat hidupmu lenyap dari duniamu.

Logic, science, hukum Archimedes bahkan Albert Einstein sekalipun tak dapat menjelaskan kemana penghuni hatiku menghilang.

Apakah ke pelukan wanita lain ataukah ke dalam bahagianya yang baru.

Entahlah.

Yang jelas, kini aku telah jatuh ke jurang terdalam dari kesakitanku.

  Hatiku.

Semudah itu kau ubah menjadi keping-keping bebutiran lalu pergi terbawa angin.

Akankah kau akan datang menghidupkan kembali lentera hatiku atau memberi ruang kepada lelaki lain untuk memperbaiki hatiku?

  Kau tidak datang.

Mungkin kau sudah lupa, atau mungkin bahagiamu bukan cuma aku.

Jika sudah begini, cara terbaik untuk terus melangkah adalah mengikhlaskan.

Memang berat tetapi harus.

  November yang hampir selalu basah.

Hujan yang perlahan jatuh dengan riangnya ataukah langit tahu tentang kesedihanku?

Tuhan pasti punya jawabannya.

  Wahai penghuni hati.

Di bulan November yang basah ini, aku menemukan penghuni hati yang baru.

30 Day Song Challenge 

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