Total Rambling, an old post, wrote Early March 2011, I felt incomplete at that time and didn’t publish. But when I read it today, it had a charm of its own. So felt like posting it. Read at your…
Category: Road trip Winter-spring
Desert hallucinations..!
Desert is a funny place. Full of ironies. I wrote a postcard with some of my own quotes and never sent it to the person intended. Just like mountains, canyons and valleys, desert intrigues. Well, I ask, is ‘plains’…
Road trip Recap…!
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard Hippies, Runners, Animal Activists, Gays, Indians, Chinese, Americans, Republicans, Democrats, Cricket, Twitterati…1 Parking ticket,…
Different shades of ….What else.. ME!
Alright, I started growing my moustache and beard from Jan 1. Ok, sorry folks, Let me put it this way, I haven’t shaved my facial hair (of whatever there is) since Jan 1. That is a long time,…
A hike, a knee, a river, a bridge, a jump..!
“You know why you like to travel? Everywhere you go, nothing belongs to you. When you’re home, you’re weighed down by your possessions.” –A Thai Monk The stage is set in Angeles national forest in Southern California outside…
Big cities and the lone wolf…!
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together” – Henry David Thoreau Perhaps what Thoreau said in 19th century is still very valid, may be even more so. I have traveled to very few big cities like…
Day 2, 3 and spa..!
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary Before the trip had begun, I had gotten my snowboard…
Night 1
Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” ~Robert Byrne Being a dirt-bag, that was one of my plans for the trip, to save money, sleep in the car, camps and likewise. But plans may not always work. …
Day 1: MT-ID-WY
“Across hills and vales, the horizon is but only a mirage begging to make sense” – Avial (Band) I started the journey, on Thursday morning just before 11am, rather than the planned Wednesday afternoon for few unavoidable reasons. Honey bee…