I assume that Obama moved from Los Angeles to New York during the summer of 1981, between the two school years. If he spent three weeks in Pakistan and perhaps even more visiting his mother in Indonesia, then I figure he spent the entire summer traveling around the world. I assume he traveled from Los Angeles through Hawaii to Indonesia and then through Pakistan to New York.

Wahid Hamid and Hasan Chandoo refused reporters’ requests to answer questions in interviews, and Obama wrote nothing about his three-week trip to Pakistan and India in either of his two books.

The trip to India obviously was to visit the home of Vinai Thummalapally, who had been Obama’s room-mate in Los Angeles. Thummalapally was interviewed by the journalists and did not mention this trip either, so he apparently did not travel with Obama during that summer.

I don’t know why Obama decided to move from Los Angeles to New York, but he apparently decided that the change would enable him to make a new start in his life. In particular, he wanted to stop using drugs.

It seems that he wanted to live alone in an apartment in Spanish Harlem. When the heat was turned off in that apartment, however, Obama was compelled by circumstances to live with Sohale Hal Siddiqi, who was a cocaine addict. By that time, however, Obama had developed his strong resolve to stay off drugs.

It’s strange that Obama wrote so frankly about his involvement with drugs and with a drug addict, but wrote nothing at all about this three-week visit to Pakistan and India. After all, he even went partridge hunting in Pakistan. How could he not write about that?