A hike amongst the lakes It feels nice to return to Michigan. It is allegedly spring here which brings with it oodles of cold rain, fairly reasonable chance of an occasional snow showers and freezing nights to ensure you don’t turn off your heater just yet. But after twenty odd days in the Swedish arctic,[…]
1600 miles of Lotus-ness The night before the trip, I was reasonably worried. It would be her first road trip and a daunting task. The Lotus would travel over 1100 miles in a straight line to drive a few hundred miles on curvy mountainous roads. The winding roads were eagerly anticipated but getting there in[…]
It took almost two months for the mailed out post cards to make their way across the desert and an Atlantic ocean into the United States from the United Arab Emirates. And since it took me just as long to write about Dubai, I must make it perfectly clear at the start that my Bedouin[…]
As much as I wanted to continue staring at jarring peaks and glacial cavities, eventually we had to head south. From Glacier National Park in Montana to Zion National Park in Utah, it would be a monumental drive. We decided for the sake of sanity to split the drive into two parts. The first day[…]
An evening at Glacier National Park Back in grade school, sketching and painting scenery was reduced to a proven formula. There were certain elements that needed to be captured. Roughly divide the piece of paper in three parts. Draw cascading mountains by drawing inclined parallel lines intersecting the ones drawn in the other direction. Include[…]
0 to 5 National Parks in 16 days! Clearly, the bears generally left me alone and I have returned from an adventure out in the wild-west un-eaten. I had an absolutely amazing experience. In fact, it was so unique that I almost decided not to write anything about it. My amateur writing capabilities would never[…]
Dushyant is going west. Because it is peaceful there, in the open air, and the skies are blue. And because watching the cool animated video of Pet Shop Boys back in the 11th grade left a lasting impression of a song much forgotten. Without a computer and a continuous high-speed internet connection, he will be[…]
Like most other great adventures, it was essentially planned out in 15 minutes. A car would be driven, beginning in grey wintery cold Ann Arbor. It would travel great distances to the east and south where it was decidedly warmer and perhaps much nicer. There was of course a vague idea of how large of[…]
Did someone lose their heaven? If it starts with only a wish, a remote yearn but when its ends up being a real manifestation, the journey of emotions is incomparable. Stelvio Pass, If All End All I have always dreamed of driving on the best roads in the world in a respectable rear wheel drive[…]
Look what you made me do, write a poem for youI have not done this in a long time, for good reasons tooBut spending time with you has created such a stirThat only the abruptness of a verse will do Welcome! You greeted me with a tardy and unrepentant driverAnd declared adamantly that punctuality in[…]