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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been to Niagara Falls at least a dozen times, not entirely by choice. Every group of visiting relatives has insisted on seeing it. And then they want to visit Hindu temples all over the place, like there’s a shortage of them in India.[/quote]

This has to be rare. No one on my side of the family, my in laws , my Desi friends, my sisters family visiting from India has ever asked to visit Hindu temples in the US? You family may be too religious.
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No - it's a thing.  I'm married to a South Indian who grew up in India in a pretty conservative Hindu family.  Every time my in-laws visit (from Bangalore), they visit temples.  Same for every auntie and uncle who visits, and the families of our other South Indian friends.  And they host a lot of pujas while they're here as well.  As a PP said, the Pittsburgh temple is particularly popular.  But we have visited temples all over the country! Its a normal stop when we travel with them.

It might just be a South Indian religious Hindu thing though.  [/quote]

That first PP described my experience. I didn’t even live near Pittsburgh but we went to that temple during the long weekends (eg, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc). Also South Indian.

Re:Cape Cod. I don’t think Indians born in the US are anti beach. It’s that they don’t spend as much time in New England and would prefer warmer water.[/quote]

None of us are particularly religious, so temple visits are for when we’re lazy and want good food. The Flushing temple has a first rate cafeteria and excellent Tirupati ladoos.

We are not anti-beach, but prefer water that’s not cold/murky. Which rules out most of the east coast beaches. I really don’t get the point of going to overcrowded beaches with too-hot sand and too cold water. [/quote]

Ah, the Flushing temple.  I wonder how often our paths crossed, PP, though I have not been there is decades.[/quote]

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