Sunday, July 26, 2009

CAS @ Golden Gate Park, SF, CA

After finishing up with 3 sets in volleyball by 9am, came home and left to San Francisco for visiting California Academy of Science Museum at Golden Gate Park. Took BART to reach SF, and then caught MUNI in city to reach the museum. It was very much crowded by 11:30am, and we mainly watched 'Fragile Planet' movie @ Planetarium. It was surely fun to watch. Also had a look at Aquarium, which had nice collection of sea animals.. also coral reefs..

Later visited Haight-Ashbury, and had Lunch at Eritrean Restaurant. Walked around for sometime, and headed back to home..

People involved: Avati, MS and /me
Photos: none taken
Miles: ~100 (all in public transport)
Date: Sunday, 26th July, 2009.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

17 mile drive, CA-1 (upto bigsur)

Date: 19th July, 2009
People: MS, Avati and /me
Distance: 250miles

Didn't even touch water even though we went all the way along the pacific ocean. It was beautiful day, all the stretch of 17miles drive was covered in clouds when we were there. Decided to visit bigsur and have coffee. It seemed like a good decision as the drive along the coast was nostalgic to me.. very relaxed after 800 miles driving this weekend..

lake tahoe

Date: 18th July, 2009
People: MS, Prasad, Avati and me.
Miles : 510miles

Target was to cover lake tahoe circumference by car, and stop at patel points and take photos. Also, enjoy the beauty of serene lake tahoe water, stored between sierra nevada mountains. We loved the place. At somepoint, we saw few people swimming in lake, and decided, we should swim too.. Went to Sand Harbor beach. Water was cold (may be in 45+ range), but sun was hot, so is the sight around us. Hence we went in and swam some distance. There were lot of young people who were jumping to water from rocks (10-20ft high). MS and Avati jumped too.. Avati swam around half a km (in 4 laps) over all. I swam not more than 150m, but came out and took sunbath looking at the beauty surrounding us.


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Had some good dinner at sacramento. Over all a nice trip.. for sometime at Sand Harbor beach, thought I am at Miami, not near bay area..

Sunday, July 5, 2009

yosemite - 20090704

People: Manoj NV(mano, psycho), Prasad Hegde (God), Anand Avati, Sriharsha MS and /me

Car: Nissan Altima (hybrid)

Distance: 470miles.

Time: 4:30am on 4th July -> 1:00 am 5th July (~21hrs)

This visit was quite a normal one, and our goal was to just 'see' yosemite national park's beauty, instead of any adventure/hike etc. The park was crowded with cars and people. Sadly the department itself had put controlled fire in few regions, which blurred the view from glacier point.
I drove ~400+ miles. It was quite a lively trip with lot of brainstorming discussions.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

baseball game -- oakland atheletics

been to baseball game today. Oakland Athletics Vs Detroit Tigers @ oakland's mcAffe Coliseum, as part of our company outing. I did enjoy the game. It was my first experience with live game, enjoyed it..