HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAMAN. Nobody I know travels more than Naman. Nobody. In 2016, I may come close. Maybe! At a high level, my International trips in 2016 will be: January-February: India April: UK, Italy, Jordan September: Germany November: India again My tickets for January-Febuary are already booked. Today, we booked tickets for the London Marathon […]
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Happy Birthday B

It’s B’s birthday. We don’t have much of a birthday tradition for giving gifts, etc.; we like to make it a low-key affair; we went out to Mexican food nearby with her mother and Missy. I called it rest day. I gave her flowers (white lilies) and sang her Happy Birthday in a goofy tone. […]
Race Report – Freedom Run Half Marathon on my birthday

After the race – me (left, Sar (middle) and Eric (right) Today is my birthday. I’ve had a near perfect day. With good wishes from friends old and new, and family of course, the day only got better! I was up early today. After my usual race-morning routine (which included half a cup of cold […]
Seventeen family members in Greece for my mom’s 85th birthday

There are seventeen of us in Rhodes, Greece now. Let the party begin. A few of the younger folks, escorted by Naman were out partying all night and weren’t even up until noon today. The rest of us mature folks settled down in the hotel near Lardos on the west coast of Rhodes. With jetlag, […]
Happy Birthday to me

Today is my birthday. I had dozens of people wishing me from all over the world. It was good to receive wishes from long-lost friends (especially high school friends from my teen days), and of course family and close friends. Thanks all! I was born in 1963. You do the math, but I turned 49 […]
It’s Bukhara time (easily the best restaurant in the world)

Kristi and Will absolutely ROCK. Today, they gave me one of the coolest gifts I have ever received. I have mentioned in this blog (in May or June) that my favorite restaurant in the entire world is Bukhara at the Maurya Sheraton in Delhi. The food there is so good that even thinking about it […]