Random Travel Incidents

A long commute daily to work, meeting new faces, some wonderful and some frustrating characters. Just thought of scribbling some incidents.

Why do people wear sunglasses even when the train runs underground or in the tunnel??  Well I do too to avoid eye contact with strangers.

So this one day when I was on the train, freaking tired, settling to go to sleep for the next 1.5 hrs. I noticed this lady in the front staring at me like hell. And not once, twice or thrice, her damn eyes were scanning me. As I had my glares on, I could watch her but she couldn’t. Her gaze was making me so conscious that I couldn’t go to sleep. Huh! And the most weird thing, she was staring at my legs…WTF***.

I mean c’mon …why??? Did I not look like a human?? Or I had eight legs like an octopus.

The other weird incident today morning - 

I boarded the train, grabbed a seat.  I noticed this guy sitting in the front(back facing me) was watching p~o~r~n on his laptop. Yes, u heard it right. It gets very crowded in the morning hours so the seat next to me was quickly taken. This man next to me turned all red (not in anger). He had his ipod on and when I requested him to move out as I wanted to change my seat, he didn’t listen. He was BUSY. Well I made him notice my request and I changed my seat.

All my way I was wondering what an idiot and an over desperate was this guy to see such a film on a laptop in between 50 odd people. And he wasn’t any college student. He was a professional, at least from his dressing. Huh! And no words for this another gentleman who took the seat by my side and started enjoying the movie.

 Well interesting characters sure make up the interesting journey. Many more to come.

El Niño Weekend Getaway - North Tahoe

The El Niño has stretched 2010 winter and it doesn’t feel like spring even in mid April. Fortunate enough, I could squeeze in a trip to North Lake Tahoe with my great friends. North Tahoe has been getting a lot of sow in the late season too this year. Though the wet winter of Bay Area - courtesy El Niño, is never exciting, the snow all around us in Tahoe was.

I visited South Lake for the first time last year in May 2009 and it was one of the most beautiful 3 days weekend. The spectacular hues of blue of the lake were heavenly. I researched a little on why is the lake water so blue. It is because of its purity and great depth, and the clarity of the atmosphere, all colors of the sky and landscape are reflected in Lake Tahoe. So it is called the "Lake of the Sky", with its brilliant shades of blues and greens. The first thing that caught my attention this year was the difference in the color of the water between North Lake v/s South Lake. The North Lake water did not exhibit the same splendor as south. This indeed left me puzzled and I am still trying to research whether it’s the ecology or pollution. It would be really sad to know if the reason is pollution as it would add one more beautiful nature's wonder to the list of human exploitation.

We checked-in our beautiful Indian inspired resort condo by the lake on Sat morning and enjoyed rest of the day sledging and snowshoeing. The weather was pretty warm for the weekend. We were moving around happily in a jeans and a snow jacket on the Snow Mountains.

Later in the evening we soaked our tired bodies in the hot Jacuzzi by the lake surrounded by snow Peak Mountains. This was probably the best feature of the trip. Kudos to all the efforts of finding a great place to stay. Well this wasn’t the end of the day. In the night we headed towards north to test our luck gambling in Reno. And as usual :) lost all my bets. I better read some techniques of winning ;)

The next day was a usual lazy Sunday morning and instead of eating breakfast somewhere out, we all opted to arrange on our own in the lovely kitchen of our weekend condo. All lazy bums :-D ! But no second thoughts, arranging the breakfast with minimum stuff available was fun.
All set to check-out we started for the home and captured some great pictures on our way back. The exciting weekend was over after 5 hrs; our driving time to home.

Great friends, great weather and a great getaway made a great weekend trip..Yayyy!

Thanks to my great friends Raman, Rohini and Rahul! And it’s never enough to thank my better half who makes my each day special.

City I stayed in: Kings Beach, CA map

Hotel I stayed in: Red Wolf Lakeside Lodge, Kings Beach, CA

Nearby cities visited: Reno, Truckee, Northstar Village