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India Trip

Posted in Family, Trips, Vacation, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We went to India over the Christmas break to visit Anjali’s parents in Pune and my extended family in Nagpur. Anjali’s parents had their 50th anniversary.  Here is Anjali with her parents in the middle and her brother on the right.  In the front and back row are her cousins. Here are the kids with [...]

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Memorial Day Visit to Santa Cruz Island

Posted in Family, Life, Trips, tagged , , on June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

On Memorial Day we visited the Channel Islands – Santa Cruz Island. We started out at Ventura Harbor, a little over 100 miles from our house and then took a 2 hour boat ride to the island.  The weather was beautiful. Here is Annika with her best friend Lizzy who came along with us. Here is [...]

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Hong Kong and China Trip

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 [...]

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Channel Islands – Santa Cruz

Posted in Life, Trips, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Neither Snow nor Paris Train Strike

Posted in Trips, Vacation, tagged , , , , , , on November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

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 toll roads [...]

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50 Places to Visit Before You Die

Posted in Trips, tagged , , , 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 13 with [...]

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Zion Trip

Posted in Trips, Vacation, tagged , on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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 also [...]

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Geneva Trip

Posted in Trips, tagged , , 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 of downtown [...]

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