We had planned the fourth day as a free day to visit some place we had missed out on. After having so much fun at Florida Keys, we had zeroed down to two options for the fourth day: Kennedy Space Center or Miami Seaquarium. We decided to visit Miami Seaquarium & other places in Miami due to weather forecasts and distance we'd have to travel to visit KSC. We totally want to visit KSC in future! I have been to San Diego Sea World and I was expecting same kind of fun here. It was a great day.. sunny and no [View Full Entry]

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Apologies for taking soooooo long to publish this blog! I have another 6 pending blogs and I promise to finish them without any delay! On our third day of florida trip, we wanted to spend the whole day at Everglades National Park. Everglades, famous for crocodiles and alligators and other reptiles, is the largest subtropical wilderness in United States. Although, we knew it was the wrong season (wet season) to visit the park, we were determined to encounter some alligators! We started early from our hotel, however, on the way, experienced one of the heaviest rain of our lives. We were [View Full Entry]

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On July 5th morning, we left Key West and started driving east bound on the Overseas Highway. We made a few stops at various vista points along the way. The 3 hours drive on the Overseas Highway (also known as Florida Highway 1) is truly picturesque. Our first major stop was Bahia Honda State Park. This state park consists of a couple of beaches and a short walk to the broken old bridge overlook. Bahia Honda was awarded the best beach in the continental United States twice. Undoubtedly, the beach is award worthy. You can see the new overseas highway on [View Full Entry]

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(Panorama above is the view of the outer walls of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas National Park) Shreya and I visited South Florida for 4 days during July 4th weekend. Summer is not the right season to visit Southern Florida. It is the wet season with some occurrences of hurricanes. But, the bright side is the benefits of the “off-season”. That is, relatively less rush, cheaper hotels, etc. Key West is the southernmost city of Continental United States. It is 4 hours South West of Miami, accessible by the Overseas Highway (US Route 1). This scenic highway consists of 42 bridges [View Full Entry]

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First of all, accept my apologies for not updating this overdue blog for a long time. Some of it was due to laziness, some of it was due to work, and some of it was due to planning and preparation for Florida trip. Now I am back and so is some activity on this page. This entry is in continuation with . We stayed a night at Burney, CA. Next morning, we drove north to the Mount Shasta. We got some stunning view of Mt. Shasta from the highway. Mt. Shasta is a 14,179 feet tall stratovolcano. It is not connected [View Full Entry]

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(Panoramic picture above is frozen Lake Helen in Lassen Volcanic National Park) Another spontaneous trip - Shasta and vicinity. Shreya and I planned a weekend trip to Northern California while returning home from office on Friday evening. We drove to Sacramento and stayed the night at my cousin’s place and started heading further north to Lassen Volcanic National Park. Lassen Volcanic National Park Some background about this national park - whole of the USA was surprised when a volcano erupted in Northern California in 1914. It was followed by series of explosions fo [View Full Entry]

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We made a day visit to San Francisco again this Sunday as we had a friend visiting from out of town. This was Shreya's 3rd visit and mine .... I lost the count since 2005. We tried to cover as much as we could - Golden Gate Bridge and Vista Points, Rodeo Beach, Sausalito, Crookedest Street, Union Square, Coit Tower, Fishermen's Wharf, Twin Peaks... Although, San Francisco deserves a blog entry; I don't consider myself a tourist in San Francisco anymore ;-).. So, I'll just upload some pictures here. The panorama is the view from the Twin Peaks, San Francisco. [View Full Entry]

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Two exciting days at Utah deserts brought a craving for more of it inside us! However, we had an evening flight back to the Bay Area from Salt Lake City on Monday. We reached Salt Lake City on Monday morning around 2:15 am and stayed at Metropolitan Inn in the downtown. We checked-in and crashed to the beds. To our great surprise, they had “tempurpedic” mattresses! It was so comfortable! Not to mention, we over slept the next morning and woke up just half an hour before the check-out time! We called the front desk and requested one hour extension for [View Full Entry]

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As the name suggests, Arches National Park hosts over 2000 cataloged natural sandstone arches. This national park is situated on a salt bed. This is the main cause of the rock formations here. This salt bed was deposited over the Colorado Plateau some 300 million years ago. Over the years, the salt bed was covered with residue from water and winds. This movement of salt shaped the earth due to erosion over time in this area. After a long process of water and ice deposits inside the superficial cracks and cavities of sandstone layers, bits and pieces started falling off. Erosion [View Full Entry]

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Trip to Utah was planned two or more months back! This was the Memorial Day weekend and we wanted to make a longer trip rather than usual weekend activities in California. We flew to Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday night; rented a Hummer 3 from the airport and drove south to Moab, UT. Utah is very famous for its national parks and desert. There are 4-5 national parks featuring red canyons. Canyonlands can be thought as a national park from the same family as Grand Canyon. Colorado River is the same primary reason for its formation. Moab is a small [View Full Entry]

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