Entries from April 2005

April 29, 2005

Yesterday’s weather

Getting back to Cleveland from Peru was a shocker. Let me say it in 2 words – major snowstorm. The weather cleared up in 2 days and now its 55 F and rainy.
How do the weathermen predict weather ? Based on yesterday’s ? Based on the satellite pictures ? Isnt this as [...]

April 27, 2005

Hiking the Inca trail

We arrived in Lima on a Saturday and took a city tour. Spanish is the official language and if you dont know it, then its mucho problemo. Interestingly, of Peru’s 28 million inhabitants, 25% live in Lima. Sunday we headed to Cuzco, which is the old Inca capital city, an hour’s flight from Lima, over [...]

April 12, 2005

All jazzed up in NOLA

The five of us had planned a weekend trip to New Orleans during the past weekend to coincide with the French Quarter festival. The hotel we booked wasnt that great, but was located quite conveniently, a 6 block walk to Bourbon Street.Gangs of New OrleansSt Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square
NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana) was all [...]

April 3, 2005

Snowed in again

This weekend, Prem came to visit me from Miamisburg which is about 180 miles from here. We thought we’d roam around Cleveland a bit, but it snowed most of Saturday its only cleared up now, on Sunday afternoon, when he’s left to go back.
In fact, it snowed so much, we had difficulty finding the car [...]