Sept 20th 2009 While being encouraged by V liking travel, we are also trying to embrace the last few weekends where we may be having some sun. Added to that K was not “on-call”. Most importantly our friends from Chicago- Janani & Sudharshan were visiting. So we wanted to show them the glory and beauty of Oregon. Originally we had planned to go to the Silver Falls State Park . We skipped it because KK had taken them on too tough a trial through Mt. Hood the previous day. Added to that, our whole family was down wi [View Full Entry]

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Sept 12th -13th 2009 Having a baby changes many things about your lifestyle if you will allow it. And for us it definitely did and we gave priority to our son and watching him grow. The fact that he hated the car seat made travel all the more difficult for us. But like we have found, if you wait and not let the desire die, things will eventually turn around. He is a little over a year old now and as he faces the front in the car slowly beginning to realize it is not such a bad deal after all. [View Full Entry]

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July 4th 2009 I can certainly say we picked the wrong day to visit Cannon Beach. It was the July 4th long weekend, my sister was in town and my parents were leaving in a week and it was 85F in Portland so we thought what the heck and set out. We dressed like one would when you head to the beach on a sunny day. Who the heck knew that Cannon Beach, a mere 1 and a half hours away would have totally different weather conditions and I had to check the wind directions. It was chilly and windy and [View Full Entry]

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27th June 2009 This is definitely one spot that is widely advertised as one of the must sees for people in Portland, OR. Multnomah Falls is the second-tallest year-round waterfall in the nation. One of the things I definitely love about living here is you barely have to drive 10 mins and you are surrounded by natural beauty every side. The coast is less than 2 hrs away and the desert is less than 4, I can’t really ask for more. We moved here in Aug 2008 but having a baby put a stop on travel for a while. This [View Full Entry]

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May 3rd 2009 My last entry to travelblog was in 2007. It is now June 2009, been two years. Well, lots have happened in our lives and travel was not a top priority I first saw the tulip fields in the tamil movie "Anniyan" in the song "Kumari..", it was truly spectacular! However I have since then seen many friends visiting Tulip farms in Seattle. When we moved to Portland and found out that they have Tulip farms, it was one thing we wanted to do. With a 10 month old, we were looking for easy things to include in [View Full Entry]

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20th August 2007 We had come to the last part of our planned trips. We were going to the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. After rafting in The Ocoee River the previous day we were all tired and just wanted to sleep a bit more The caves did not sound interesting enough to wake us up from bed and drive! But we did just that and did not regret it one bit. It was about a 2 hr drive from Nashville. A piece of advice, there aren't many places to eat in the vicinity and it would be a [View Full Entry]

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19th August 2007 [View Full Entry]

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17th- 18th August 2007 Karthik and I have been in Nashville since 2004 (me from 2002) but this is the first time, my aunt and her family from CA visited us. We were very excited and looked forward to this trip a lot. My aunt and uncle, their kids and my maternal grandmother came on the 16th. Their trip is divided into three blogs- local Nashville stops and the Smoky Mountains, Rafting at Ocoee and a trip to the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Nashville Stops As for any tourist visiting Nashville- we visited the usual spots- [url=http://www.nashville.gov/part [View Full Entry]

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July 22nd -28th 2007 For those of you who don’t know what I do in the USA, I am working on my PhD in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. I work as part of the Radiation Effects Group , the largest of its kind I think anywhere in the world. And when we found out about a year ago that our annual conference- The IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) would be held at Honolulu, HI we became [View Full Entry]

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May 5th to 12th 2007 Warning: This was a long one week road trip and will be quite a descriptive blog ... so don’t start it if you don’t have time or will be able to read it in parts, but hopefully you will all enjoy sharing our experiences. As with any long trip, the planning and anticipation was really fun for this one too. Our parents and in-laws were going to be in town and we wanted to go somewhere as a family that not only would be something we enjoy but would also be someplace they hadn’t been to [View Full Entry]

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