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We’ve been living in the SF Bay Area for almost three years now, yet I don’t know why we never really thought of going up Mount Hamilton although we had known about it. A few weeks ago that trip did ultimately happen and I am so glad it did....
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If you have been in San Jose, CA or around there and have carefully looked at the skyline, you just might have seen a white dome on one of the hills in the distance. And that just might have been Lick Observatory right on the top of Mt. Hamilton....
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It was a day of crossing borders. Imagine going from California to Nevada, Nevada to California and back before going into California from Nevada one more time, all this in one day. It was a pleasure trip that we were on but crossing borders was not exactly the plan....
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This pruned garden is not just any rose garden. It was only a few years ago that this rose garden in San Jose was under AARS* probation. In 2007, however it was revived and two years later this rose garden became the coveted “America’s Best Rose Garden.” The recognition...
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Oakland Zoo has been shifted from one place to another since the time it first opened. Now settled in Knowland Park, this zoo has its animals in 45 acres of the 500-acre park. Spread across several hills, this zoo can be seen on foot, or on wheels as the...
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A few kilometres away from Panamaram in Wayanad — on the Punchavayal-Neervaram route, to be more precise — lies this stone structure that stands testimony to Wayanad’s long standing relationship with Jainism. It is believed that Jains came to Wayanad in the Middle Ages. Considered to be among the first settlers in...
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On my recent trip to India and back, I got to see a little bit of Singapore, thanks to the stopovers at the Island Country at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. It was only a sneak peak that I got, not quite fulfillling my wish to tour this...
We’ve been living in the SF Bay Area for almost three years now, yet I don’t know why we never really thought of going up Mount Hamilton although we had known about it. A few weeks ago that trip did ultimately happen and I am so glad it did....
If you have been in San Jose, CA or around there and have carefully looked at the skyline, you just might have seen a white dome on one of the hills in the distance. And that just might have been Lick Observatory right on the top of Mt. Hamilton....
It was a day of crossing borders. Imagine going from California to Nevada, Nevada to California and back before going into California from Nevada one more time, all this in one day. It was a pleasure trip that we were on but crossing borders was not exactly the plan....
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This pruned garden is not just any rose garden. It was only a few years ago that this rose garden in San Jose was under AARS* probation. In 2007, however it was revived and two years later this rose garden became the coveted “America’s Best Rose Garden.” The recognition...
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Oakland Zoo has been shifted from one place to another since the time it first opened. Now settled in Knowland Park, this zoo has its animals in 45 acres of the 500-acre park. Spread across several hills, this zoo can be seen on foot, or on wheels as the...
A few kilometres away from Panamaram in Wayanad — on the Punchavayal-Neervaram route, to be more precise — lies this stone structure that stands testimony to Wayanad’s long standing relationship with Jainism. It is believed that Jains came to Wayanad in the Middle Ages. Considered to be among the first settlers in...
On my recent trip to India and back, I got to see a little bit of Singapore, thanks to the stopovers at the Island Country at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. It was only a sneak peak that I got, not quite fulfillling my wish to tour this...
Visit a Japanese Garden once and you’ve visited them all. But there’s no getting tired of them. The look of a Japanese Garden and the feeling that takes over...
Here in the San Francisco Bay area there is no dearth of Indian food. Take just south Indian food and you are spoiled for choice. Now, if you are...
We got to drive through another part of the famous Highway 1* a few weeks ago. This time it was the stretch North of San Francisco, as we were...
Our next stop on the Karnataka Coast was Maravanthe Beach. After a simply-perfect evening at Ottinene Beach, we headed inland to Kollur but the next day we were back...