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      "body": "![BLR to London.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfZZaZ7a9BhVQ2ZpWsXyWgqZtdy6RfrYtuM6iME8PYq3H/BLR%20to%20London.JPG)\n\n![London to Denver.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQma5cPqfu9c3G6UPPVoPUu1vWWnCYDPanpyM6RPedNPWug/London%20to%20Denver.JPG)\n\nAll my friends have been asking for long time to pen down all my travel experiences across the globe and I would always tell them, will write it when I get old. I have visited more than 40 countries in my life and plan to write about all of them.  The first one in the list is “My visit to United states of America\".\n\nGenerally it takes around 20 hours to reach United States from Bangalore (India). It took me forever. Did I finally reach my destination? Crazy circumstances I had to deal with to reach my final destination. How does ignorance play major role in ones travel? Do strangers really help unknown people from other countries? Do cultural differences between eastern and western countries become barrier? 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One of the frequent flier said “Any object other than planes on the run way are referred as UFO; it does not mean alien carrier lol”. It was embarrassing but I learnt something new on that day. Customer support confirmed that they don’t have any flights flying to Denver on that day. They gave me choice of waiting one day in London airport or I could take flight to Chicago and from there to Denver. I chose the second option as it would make me reach my destination earlier.   \n\nLayover in London airport was 2-3hrs. I was sitting next to a phone booth and an elderly lady was struggling to call India. She dint remember the country code. I offered to help her and dialed the Indian number for her.  She came to me after speaking to her friend and said “Thanks for your help; you can call India by using my calling card”. I was very thankful to her as I could tell my parents that I have missed my flight and would take longer to reach Denver. 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