Hawaii (Dec 2013)

Day 1 – Big Island – Volcano National Park Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, is a United States National Park located in the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi on the island of Hawaiʻi. It encompasses two active volcanoes: Kīlauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and Mauna Loa, the world’s most massive subaerial…

Rhode Island – Block Is and Newport

Suddenly we decided before the long weekend to go away for the weekend… Well, we looked at where we can drive within 3-4 hrs and Rhode Island/ Block Island clicked correctly.. One of my colleagues had shown pictures of Block Is and he is from Block Is. We wanted to go to this place for…

Enroute to Acadia National Park and there..

October 9, 2009 Though we had been crazy about visiting Acadia National Park, I got to be honest! We enjoyed the ride upto ANP, through VT, NH and ME more than the ANP itself! Probably because of the time of the year we chose for the trip.. Autumn. The foliage in NE is certainly much…

Mighty Yellowstone!

Aug 7-9, 2009 This was a vacation that we have been wanting to go for a long while and it worked out so fast this time that we didn’t prepare anything except to pick up some maps from AAA (that was a big mistake, coming to know after the trip)!! We set out to visit…

Finger Lakes, NY

When we moved to the NY Capital region almost a year ago, we had our reservations about things to do in this region. We, mostly, like to do nature trails, casual photography and mild relaxing hikes. We were pleasantly surprised at the amount of stuff you can do within driving distance from Albany area, which…