grand canyon and lasvegas

been to transcanyon hiking. went to lasvegas, flagstaff, and later to southrim. more info on other blog.


Dates: 20th June - 23rd June
People: me, achalesh, kiran, nadeem, ashpujith.

Houston - Texas

Been to Houston for 4 days. Met Robert, visited some customer's offices. Ate like Texan (but not red meat). Went there with Hitesh and AB.

Los Angeles

Been to Los Angeles yesterday with AB and Hitesh. Visited one of the possible customer's office at Beverley Hills area. Stayed there for a day. Went in flight to Burbank from SanJose Int' Airport.

skydiving

went to skydiving today near sacramento (on CA 99). more info on my other blog.

after that visited oakland port to see a ship which was used in worldwar II.

People: me, achalesh, kiran, sudarshan

skiing @ Lake Tahoe

I had seen it in TV, I had imagined it in dreams, and I had thought that I may not get chance to try this out at all. Just a week since I entered USA, I got a invitation for skiing from Madan. I agreed. After another week, we were out to skiing. We were 5ppl. Chaitanya (aka, chena), Madan (aka micromysore), Manushree, Raghavendra (aka Gunda) and me (aka bulde :p) It was ~4hrs drive from Fremont. We went to Lake Tahoe (ie, south of lake tahoe, called "skiing at sierra tahoe"). I went to beginners class before lunch, and after lunch tried it myself. I fell many times, but It was fun too.., a new experience, a new feeling. Never tried to go fast, as i didn't had control.
Over all it was a fun weekend. Came back on the same day. And no break taken while coming back.

shortest trip to mysore

Total time: 7hr30mins.

We (me, avati and gowda) left B'lore at ~12:45pm in Gowda's car. Reached Mysore at 3:30pm, met Kris, went to Avati's place. Left to B'lore at ~5pm. Reached B'lore at 8pm.

Overall, we were in Mysore for less than 2hrs. This trip is one of my shortest visit to Mysore.

mysore - on bike

Mysore is the default destination if you want to travel/drive/ride, and you don't have any place in mind. It happened to me too.. I just wanted to ride the bike, as I was bored of riding it slowly, in lower gears in the city traffic.

Pramod told he wants to accompany me, hence we left Bengaluru around 7.50AM. Didn't give any coffee/food break inbetween. Weather was good, little cold. Hence I rode continuously till Mysore. Reached there around 10.10am, Had coffee in CCD. Just roamed around in Mysore till evening. Went to Avati's place, had coffee. Left Mysore around 8pm.

Gowda also came with us, hence Pramod shifted to his car. We came bit slowly taking breaks as we pleased. Went to Maddur CCD. had some coffee. Reached home at 11.40PM.

Total distance covered : 328kms.
I rode whole of it, and more than 170kms alone