Numerous trips to Ichalkaranji, Jaisinghpur

Located in southwest Maharashtra. Overnight trip.... beautiful journey..
Relatives live out there.. nothing much to see.. except the Sugar and Yarn factories.

Numerous trips to Surat

Almost every six months to a year. The city, earlier was Richie Rich.. now dont know. Great place to live.. really clean by Mumbai's standards (supposedly second cleanest in India)

Trips to Rajasthan

Seen Jaipur, Udaipur, Ajmer... and my home town Kuchaman City. Plus villages like Salemabad, Rajgarh.

Need I mention.. Sand.. great to sleep on the sand on cool nights. The sevaiyan and kachori in Kuchaman are simply amazing.

Calcutta - On way to Assam

Whenever we went to Assam, it was thru Calcutta (now Kolkata). Crowded buses, beautiful Howrah Bridge and Metro rail. Conductors fold the rupee notes longitudinally, in a special way. Jhaal Muri (Sukha bhel with Olive oil) and Toast muri are not to be missed. For the uninitiated, Jhaal means hot (spicy) and muri is the kurmure part.

Numerous trips to Assam

As a child. Rich greenery, rain, rain and rain. Beautiful landscape and a Village of a few hundred ppl where my maternal grandparents live. Places seen:

Guwahati, Nowgong, Jakhalabandha

There u can experience really primitive stuff like water pump (great exercise). Eat hot jaggery (just as it is made) and sit on a grocery store and sell 5 packets of Charminar for 20 bucks or weigh half a kg of sugar. Went to rhino park on one of the trips.