This was the most recent place I visited in The USA. In the first year of my college, I have read "Thoreau's Walden". It took me more than 50 years to visit the place. I have to read the articles again, having visited this beautiful spot. Walden pond is located in the state of Massachussetts, in Concord.
My daughter lives in New Hampshire and she insisted on our going there and walk around the pond on June 21, 2008. The weather was great and the long walk was extremely pleasant. My daughter Gayatri, her husband Srikanth and their five month old daughter Sharanya were in our group. It was a long drive from their home.
Walden Pond is a 102-foot pond, total walking area was less than 2 miles. I think the total area is more than 60 acres.
The writer Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher who lived on the shores of this pond for two years begining the summer of 1845. His account of the experience was recorded in Walden and hence this spot(pond) became famous. Concord Museum contains the bed, chair, and desk from Thoreau's cabin. But we did not visit this. I wondered about destiny, coincidences, synchronicities when I was walking around. When I read about it in my teens, I never thought that I would actually be visiting this place in my life time.
