Posted in Trips on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from a week in Hong Kong and China.
This is a view from my hotel room at the Sheraton overlooking the harbor. In the center on the other side of the bay is the convention center and on the far right is The Peak.
From our base in HK, we went into [...]
Posted in Life, Trips, tagged Channel Islands, Harvey Mudd, hiking, Santa Cruz on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend we went on a trip organized by my alma mater (Harvey Mudd College) to the Channel Islands. These are a group of islands about 22 miles off the coast of Ventura. We took an Island Packers boat trip to Santa Cruz island which is the largest of the islands and is about 20 [...]
Posted in Trips, Vacation, tagged Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Orsay, Paris, Romance, Train Strike, Travel on November 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Paris bus and train strike that started last week almost derailed (pun intended) our plans to visit Paris over the weekend. We ended up cancelling our train tickets and instead drove the 525km trip from Geneva to Paris. The drive itself was fairly easy with the TomTom GPS system and the outstanding [...]
Posted in Trips, tagged Life, Travel, Trips, Vacation on November 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
As I was searching the internet for articles on our upcoming trip(s) (more to come on that), I came across this fun article originally published by the BBC. It lists their top 50 places to visit before you die. Interestingly enough, not a single item is in the UK!
I am up to [...]
We just got back from a 4 day trip to Zion National Park in Utah.
We stayed at the Desert Pearl Hotel which I would highly recommend for traveling families.
The first day, we did a moderate 3 mile hike called Emerald Pools. There are three pools – Lower, Middle and Upper. There is [...]
Posted in Trips, tagged Geneva, trip, Vacation on June 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from a business trip to Geneva. We had the most amazing food every night including dinner at Patara, La Perle du Lac and a winery. Patara is an expensive Thai restaurant next to the Angleterre hotel. The Pearl is a wonderful Swiss restaurant overlooking the lake at the end [...]
