Where: Uvas Canyon County Park Intention: surveying S's hiking tolerance & to experience the short duration of later Winter's waterfalls Outcome: Successful maiden attempt. S did not complain.*yay* url=http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/parks/parksarticle?contentId=c1128a77d9784010VgnVCMP230004adc4a92____Uvas Canyon county park url=http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FParks%20and%20Recreation%2C%20Department%20of%20(DEP)%2Fattachments%2F332557uvas%20both.pdfTrail map Our trail: The Waterfall loop covering Granuja falls, upper falls, basin falls, black rock falls over to the Contour trail over to Alec Canyon trail to the final Triple falls before coming down Alec canyon trail to the parking lot. Heavy storms & pouring rains made getting out next to impossible for the last one month. If not that, we were occupied with the routine work ove... read more

After a short hike with the little one yesterday, all we ever planned was to camp in a beach & relax. I've always loved the beach in Pacifica. It is close to civilization & that was needed. You can never be over-prepared with the little one. So, we just drove, parked, set up our tent(in a not-so-private beach), and R-E-L-A-X-E-D! I was not too happy with the fireworks photos. So, with an intention to sharpen my skills, I ventured to our frontyard. A short observation! People are interesting, specially if you don't know them _______________________ “Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.” ~Stephen Wright ... read more

First outing with our little S. Traveling with a baby is not as easy as I'd thought. If I remember to take a million things, its possible to forget a zillion! However, we had the need. The need for travel. In all these years, somehow we'd successfully managed to miss going to Fort Point(The amateur photographer in me always wanted to get the angle of Golden Gate from there). A sunny weather in south bay forced a huge fog into SF. The day was pleasant, the weather awesome & the place-need you ask? To master SF's roads, you need to probably visit a couple hundred times. Every time I think I know part of it, I get lost in some other part Fort Point is this small(actually very huge from the inside) ruin-like structure just below ... read more

We had a really tiring Feb 18th. After that, the need to unwind rushed into the blood & with 3 days off from routine, we dashed to a place which we might not have thought of otherwise! 3 days in a resort among the Redwoods! Where: Avenue of the Giants, NorCal. When: 20th Feb - 23rd Feb 2008 Redcrest Resort is not the usual uptight "resort" community we'd expected. It is more like a rustic cabin without the Summer crowd. Guess, that made it worth it. Plus a functional kitchen. I got to learn ping pong from Ganesh. It is a fun place to go with kids/family! There is enough to keep you busy. Humbolt county receives around 80 inches rainfall annually. This year, so far only 40 inches. Trust me, the people are happy about ... read more

Thanksgiving vacation found us in Western Nevada. Why? There was nowhere else we could go. We'd pretty much covered every place we knew. But like anything unexpected, it turned out to be a great trip. So, here goes the details. 22nd - 24th November 2007 Having ditched off all rental car plans, we had to run our speed machine for a quick service. Thursday, Nov 22nd 2007 Plans to start at 6:00am got delayed by an hour. Finally, we called it "ALL PACKED" & headed N. 7 mi on hwy 237, 3 mi on hwy 880 & a lot more on I 680 later, we stopped for our breakfast in a rest area on I80 near Truckee. A bowl of soup & some stretching later, we were off towards Reno. It was hard not to notice ... read more