This past weekend was spent at Yosemite Young Lakes, which I must say is one of the most beautiful places in Yosemite. I went there almost two years ago, in August, where it was a lot warmer (pictures). Well, I’ll describe the hike with the pictures I took (+ the two I took from Nelson [...]
Tour de Cure this Sunday was a success! I did the 75K route, wimping out of the much more difficult 120K route due to unforseen traveling the past few weeks that prevented me from training. Besides blowing a tire halfway through the ride, it was a smooth ride. And I raised $1056!! Thanks again to [...]
On Tuesday, as part of Googleserve, a group of coworkers headed out to Half Moon Bay to help clear the area of invasive mustard and ice plants. It was a lot more work than I initially anticipated, but the lot of us made a sizeable impact, pulling out a ton of these plants with hoe-matics [...]
I’m on day 87 of my jeans. After a trips to India, where I went rock climbing and survived 100+ degree weather and Ireland, where I walked a whole bunch. And today, I volunteered with Hands on Bay Area to remove some invasive plants in Half Moon Bay. More about that in a later blog [...]
Transitioning back to life in the Bay Area magnifies what things I grew accustomed to while abroad – walking to work, hearing Irish/Indian accents, paying with Euros or Rupees, and living out of a suitcase. I don’t have much to say besides that. Trying to get settled back at work in Mountain View and doing [...]