As much as I have been ready for adventure and thrill from the get go, I had never actually tried extreme sports. Everyone always talks about that rush of adrenaline after a bungee jump or a sky dive, and I had no real sense of what that meant. So, when I made my 30 before 30 list I put ‘go bungee jumping / sky diving (any adventure sport really!)’ right at the top. I checked off this list item – …
Year: 2016
On my list of cool American things to try out as soon as I had the chance, was going for an outdoor movie screening. The kind where there is a projector set up, and people are out on the grass with chairs and pillows and blankets, and watch old movies. Nothing of this sort ever happened in India, not to my knowledge at least, and it sounded like a perfect date night opportunity to me. I am glad …
I read about the Manhattanhenge, or the Manhattan Solstice, many years ago. Twice a year the setting sun aligns with the streets of Manhattan, spilling the streets with an ethereal golden light, and hundreds of people gather to photograph this light phenomena. The name of this modern day event, comes from the Stonehenge, an English monument from ~3000 BC, where the setting sun aligned with the stone structure on the summer and the winter solstice. Living …
A new project kickoff took the man to Baton Rouge, capital city of the southern state of Louisiana. My options were spending time by myself in Princeton and New York City with nothing significant to do (well there was a round of musical chairs in Bryant Park, but the summer heat was bringing down my enthusiasm), or joining him instead down south. New Orleans had long been on my list of places to visit in USA, so I packed my bags and went …
My first spring in New York City was colorful. We spent a sunny afternoon among tulips of the brightest and prettiest colors I have ever seen at West Side Community Garden’s Tulip Festival 2016. Then we strolled over to Central Park to catch some delicate little lavender and white cherry blossoms. I did not expect to feel as homesick as I have in these last few days, but I guess endless white winter can do that you. The flowers helped. Everything looked …