Keeping in touch while on the go

I was on vacation in India for the past 4 weeks with varying levels of internet access. I carried a laptop and my iPhone with me, but given the limited time I could spend on the Internet each day, I tried to be creative about keeping in touch while I was away.

Snail-mail: Someday, I’ll try and [...]

A mid-summer update

Once in a while I realize that I’ve been so behind on my blogging that I feel like I have to do a catch up post so that people who follow my blog (yes, that means all 15 of you) can know what’s happening in my life. Here’s what’s been happening in no particular order:

Work – Work has [...]

Vancouver again

I took three days off this week and joined Vikram and his brother on a trip to Vancouver and Whistler in BC, Canada. Ullas was here too and joined us on the trip. I’d blog in detail about the trip, but Ullas has written up the salient points in his blog. Some trivia about the trip:

This was my [...]

DC

DC was so freaking hot! It was 93F on Saturday and we spent the whole day walking from the Union Station/Capitol Hill end of the DC Mall to the Monument/Lincoln Memorial end. Some observations:

DC was a lot cleaner, neater and prettier than I expected. Somehow I was expecting a smaller version on Downtown LA there.
Everything in DC [...]

Yellowstone Road Trip Day 3: The Lake and more springs

By Day 3, we were all worn out and eager to get back… Nevertheless, we did drive out to Yellowstone Lake, stopping in between at the Grand Prismatic Spring area where we saw more springs and pools…

The multicoloured Prismatic Spring

   

The Opal and Sapphire pools:

   

The lake itself had [...]

A flower in the spring

 My favorite photo from the Yellowstone trip – a flower lying in the spring water, above Yellow sulfurous [...]

Yellowstone Road Trip Day 1: Getting to Yellowstone and Ol’ Faithful

Dated: Saturday, May 27, 2006

   

Given how dead tired we all were after our 500 mile overnight drive, we woke up later than we should have and ended up leaving Missoula only at 11:30 or so. The drive through Montana was absolutely beautiful through green meadows, silken mountains and a long straight stretch along I-90. [...]

Yellowstone Road Trip Day 0: On to Missoula

Dated: Friday, May 26, 2006

   

Ambi, Nanda, Anusha, Deepti & I headed out today to spend our long weekend in Yellowstone National Park. Given that it’s a 770 mile trip, we tried to get a head start by leaving on Friday evening with the intention of getting to Missoula, Montana by around midnight and resuming [...]

Mount St Helens

Beautiful day today with sunny skies and temperatures in the late 60s..Photos from our drive up to [...]

Picture Perfect Day

Seattle Originally uploaded by umeshunni.

Wow – was today a picture perfect day or what? It was 70 degrees and nice and sunny.Check out the photos we took at Kerry [...]