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Lifeline Visit and Roaming Around Boston

We six engineers from Milpitas Philips R&D team went to visit Philips Lifeline in an official tour. Our flight for San Francisco to Boston airport was 6th August Monday noon. The flight was only of five hours and we reached at Crown Plaza Natick at 10:30 PM despite the 3 hours time difference. I had a steak with french fries in dinner very late at night in Uno Chicago Grill which was quite tasty! The next whole day (Tuesday) went so busy in Framingham (Lifeline) that I seldom got time to take a breath. In the evening, we came back in hotel for 15 minutes. Ron (Dutch) joined me, Brian, Dan and Jade in our visit to Cambridge and Boston. First we went to MIT campus and then to Harvard which is close by. It was an amazing experience to visit these 2 places. We had dinner at Grandel Den's and again I picked a steak with mash potato. This teak was even tastier than last night's! Before coming back to hotel, we had ice cream from a famous shop there. Wednesday we presented PTS and

Ten Best Metropolitan Areas in the United States

I am very happy to know that according to the latest Places Rated Almanac , San Francisco is the second best metropolitan area in USA following Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the best. Also I noted that San Jose/Sunnyvale area is in the eighth position followed closely by Boston. The areas were ranked by their ambience (the cultural offerings in the city), housing, economy, transportation, education, health care, crime, recreation, and climate. Here’s a look at the areas that made the top ten. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2. San Francisco, California 3. Seattle, Washington 4. Portland, Oregon 5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6. Rochester, New York 7. Washington, D.C.

WikiTravel

Today I found a very useful serfvice for me - WikiTravel . By name you can guess what lind of service it provides. For example, if you are planning to visit San Francisco, I suggest you to have a read of their topic on this - http://wikitravel.org/en/San_Francisco