The Main Junction

Home Again

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August 11th 2005
Well, I've made it home. It was quite a journey. I left VKV at 11 a.m. on Tuesday afternoon and arrived in Austin forty-eight hours later. I took a rickshaw to the train station. From the train stationI took a two hour train to Trivandrum. From there it got really complicated. I took a taxi to the airport in the hopes that I could check my two gigantic bags in early so I wouldn't have to hau ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more