Stories In the Air
Debajit Roy(Nipu)
rdebaji@hotmail.com

Because of my profession I have to travel sometimes. Here are some of the funny stories in the air.

Metal detector:   I was going from Portland to San Jose and in the Portland airport when I was passing through the security the metal  [more]

Basketball portland vs. LA:  I was coming from Dallas to Portland. It was a game night as Portland was playing against Los-Angeles in western conference  [more]

Pilot is late:  It was a morning flight at 8:30. I am a Bangalee so always showed up at the very last moment. But this time I was not late  [more]

Happy birthday:   I was taking a nap in my seat but wake up because of a birth day song. All the cabin-crew  [more]

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A Trip to Shunderban: It was my winter vacation 1999. My family decided to have a trip to Shunderban. I was so delighted hearing about the idea to have a visit to a forest, as for the first time.  I felt that I am going to be very close to the nature. [more]
By SAMI
sami@bttb.net.bd

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Alpine Trip: 
Nazma Sultana
Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
E-mail :naz@webbangladesh.com

Part 1:  I never thought I would ever touch a beautiful alpine flower covered with snow. It was always a dream for me. My dream came true while I was at Yungham valley in sikkim.. [more]

Part 2:  Eventually, I convinced my family members and then got prepared for the tour of  Sikkim .  At first I  went  to  Calcutta . I  have  visited  Calcutta several  times before, that’s  why I  did not  face any problem. [more]

Part 3:  Next day, the hotel attendance wake us up very early in the morning. We  prepared ourselves for the trip and had our breakfast before we left the hotel. After completed our breakfast we got in to the jeep. [more]

Part 4:  After having our launch we take some rest the are start our journey beside the road there are lots of rodordain trees with flower. We feel great pleasure out of the scenery. It is a hilly area so the road is so jig jag and we got afraid out of that. [more]

Part 5: “Shilla in hotel” is a three storied building & totally made of wood. This hotel is touches with the hillside & the surrounding of this environment is so beautiful. [more]

Part 6:  From Shillas house we completed our break fast & started our journey towards wonderful Youngthum valley. It is about two hours journey to reach Youngthum valley [more]