A Taste of India

                                                                                                                               Ralph Higgins

My wife Gayle and I bought a gas station, minimart, and carwash many years ago.  This business was located in America in a small northern California town called Quincy.
After five years owning the business, we sold the business and the commercial property to Rajinderpal Singh.  We wanted to move closer to our children and grandchildren.
Quincy has a population of only 2000 people in the town itself.
Quincy is the “County Seat” of Plumas County. This means thatall the governmental offices are located in Quincy.
Mountains, our community is one of the most beautiful places to live in California.  Tourists and visitors from all over visit our small town and many stop in at the Relay Station, which is the business owned and operated by Rajinder and his wonderful wife, Narinder Kaur. After several years my wife and I returned to Quincy, where we had some property.  We built a home here.  This gave us the opportunity to spend time with Rajinder and his family.

My Third Visit to Pakistan

GIANI SANTOKH SINGH

My third visit to Pakistan

            Before starting from Sydney I went to the Pakistan consulate here to get visa. The youth at the reception counter asked me some odd questions that I had not expected. However I answered all questions to the best of my knowledge. He accepted my papers but did not promise a visa. When I raised eyebrows at so much interrogation, he said that the Indian consulate too asked such questions to Pakistanis asking Indian visa. However next week I received a phone call from him that my visa was ready and I should go and collect it from the consulate. I saw that the visa was for three months though I had requested for one month only. Last time I had requested for one month but was given for 15 days.

            As it had happened with me the last time, this time too I could not gather enough courage to under take this journey from Amritsar to Lahore and kept postponing it.