California

  • Treat yourself to Thai Cuisine (in Pacifica)

    A Tipsy-from-the-trip recommendation: Chicken Satay Pad Thai Fried Rice If you are visiting Pacifica, CA and if you like Thai Food, I suggest you try out Pacifica Thai Cuisine in between your beach-hopping. We found this restaurant on a travel app and decided to try it out as it...
  • Oakland’s Once-upon-a-time land

    Once upon a time in the United States of America, a carousel ride was the ultimate thrill ride for kids. Then in the late 1940s, a group of people in Oakland, California are said to have worked on a local businessman’s vision of creating what is today known as...
  • The heavenly ‘Heavenly Gondola’ Ride

    What's the Heavenly Gondola ride in Tahoe really like? Come read about that and why you must do it while you are in California....
  • Hayward Fault: My feet went there

    It’s not very often that one gets to stand on a fault* and know it too. If you are visiting the San Francisco Bay Area, there is a place where you can go and take a ‘my feet went there’ photograph while standing on a major fault – the...
  • 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 serves Bisi Bele Bath, Set Dosa  and Thatte idli. Bangalore Cafe is the name of the restaurant and it...
  • 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 Global Winter Wonderland, the show came,  mesmerised the San Francisco Bay area and wound up. This winter, it came...
  • 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 Jose too gets all lit up and decorated to usher in the Christmas spirit but the icing on the...
  • California Zephyr - Scenic Route

    Through Zephyr’s picture window

    If Amtrak swears that a trip on the California Zephyr is a journey through one of the most picturesque train routes in North America, they really seem to mean it. The pictures in this photo-feature will prove just that — that this is indeed a ‘scenic train route’. In...
  • California Zephyr

    Aboard the California Zephyr

    Denver, Colorado, was always on the cards. But when I came across a story last year, on San Francisco to Chicago (through Denver) being one of the most scenic train routes in the United States, I wished we could travel by train — one way at least. And travel...
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