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…

Black Friday – America’s Biggest Shopping Day*

The third Thursday of November might be a holiday for a good part of the US but the day that follows is a big event for an even larger part…

America — Through California Zephyr’s Picture Window

Is a trip on ‘California Zephyr’ really a journey thro’ one of the most scenic train routes in North America? Here’s the truth>>

Aboard The California Zephyr: One of the Most Scenic Routes Through US’s West

If you were to do a one-way trip on this train, I would suggest traveling from SF to Denver rather than the other way around. Read on to know why —

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…

Pictures from a Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkins!! What’s your favorite sight at pumpkin patches?

A Home in a Tree-Trunk

Ever seen a whole home inside a tree trunk. You have to see the One Log House in California to believe it!

A place to go sea glass hunting

There’s a beach in northern California where the tides bring in what looks like glass pebbles.