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Lake Tahoe 2010 trip

Jai and Aruna had a timeshare in Tahoe that they could only use for the weekend. Being the friend that does not work at an office, they graciously offered me to work from there if I wanted for the week. It was nice for a change from San Francisco to work walking distance from the Heavenly ski lift. Everyday I'd ski a couple of hours and work for the rest of the day accessing the internet tethering through my iphone to do my work. Was a perfect winter getaway and we even had a big storm one of the days - about 6 inches of snow and blizzards up in the mountain. I did go up and there was like no visibility few feet in front of you and unseen obstacles all over the course. Different skiing experience skiing in a blizzard :)

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Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

After spending one week in Bogota, I flew to Cartagena de Indias in the North of Bogota, which faces the Caribbean sea.

Cartagena is one the most visited cities in Colombia, due to it's preserved colonial architecture and fortresses dating from the old days. A major part of the city, "the ciudad amurallada" is in fact walled by huge fortresses made of solid coralstone. The fortress, complete with watch towers, cannons, observation points to the ocean encloses the city and was used in the spanish colonial times to protect the city. It has been deemed a protected site by the UNESCO. I loved the colonial architecture of the city and all the history behind the city.

While it's a very beautiful city, it's also a very very HOT city. The city is like a sauna - the temperature is usually very high and there's not much wind/breeze. Because of this, at nights till late, most people stay outside of their houses, on the street, just chilling out with their families, talking, dancing, doing homework etc.. the usual things we usually do indoors, but outdoors.

I did no spend much time in Cartagena - only a couple of days. Spent one day roaming around the city taking pictures and then spent another day in a tour to go to a Volcano - Volcan de Totumo which is north of Cartagena.

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Boston Sunset over the Charles River

Right place at the right time is crucial for great pictures. I happened to be walking just by Charles River for sunset and got these nice sunset shots over the Charles River.