One Picture From My Photo Album – Rowing to realisation

A picture of yours truly. The place is Phewa Lake in Pokhra, Nepal. And I was heading to the island temple of Barahi. What made me pick this picture from…

There’s an ace appa-kadai around here

Appam and Chicken Curry There are Indian Restaurants and there are Indian Restaurants that never disappoint. One such place is Aachi Appa Kadai in Santa Clara. California. We’ve been to…

Bangalore Cafe – Sakkath agide!

If you hail from the Bangalore-Mysore area and happen to be missing home food while visiting San Francisco Bay Area, I have delicious news for you. There’s a place that…

A ‘Wonderland’ of steel, silk and LEDs

Chinese Lanterns at Global Winter Wonderland. In 2011, this part of the world got a brand new holiday display, this one, at California’s Great America in Santa Clara, CA. Aptly called…

San Jose’s ‘Christmas in the Park’

Christmas isn’t Christmas without gifts, Santa Claus and Yuletide carols. And Christmas in San Jose, California is incomplete without its age-old downtown festivities. Like a lot of other cities San…

Tipsy From the Trip*

Tipsy from the Trip is a travel blog that features accounts of trips — from destinations in India to destinations in USA and a few places in between. You will…

Some retrospection, some notable posts

For a while now I had been thinking of doing a post that looked back at all the travel blogging I had done. I had been putting it off over…

Snapshots from Shoreline Highway

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 on…

FLASHback – Volcano Tour on Big Island, HI

A post from last summer :  (Also on IndiVine this week)  Inside Na Huku/ A lava tube on Big Island Volcano tour at Volcanoes National Park, Big Island Hawaii. Come,…

Fair fun and Fair food at 100th Alameda County Fair

Summer in the United States means, family vacations, camping, beach-going  and COUNTY FAIRS. If you have plans to visit in the summer and you want to try out some typical…