Growing old @ Garage - an historical place

As the tradition goes even on this birthday also I’m out of the country. With loads of meeting to attend I did make my day a very special day. I received some sweets & flowers from my wife and a cake from Hari’s family and last but not the least loads of wishes from all of them.

Ok here goes a bit of history about HP, after graduating from Stanford University in 1934, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard with the encouragement of Stanford professor and mentor Fred Terman, the two decide to start a business, Hewlett-Packard Company is founded January 1, 1939 with a coin toss.

This is the historic Garage where they manufactured their first product and started their business and then the history goes on.
Another historic day the city Palo Alto was founded on this day 16th April some time in 18th Century

So far in America

I landed here in the US of A, a couple of weeks ago in San Diego, Jet lag really took a toll on me and it took some time for me to catch up. Added to it had to attend a lot of meetings. The first weekend was kind of not so good, had lot of things to catch up. The first weekend traveled to San Diego beach.

Ok then the 2 weekend was promising but I had to travel to San Jose. So on a nice Saturday morning I decided to travel to Universal Studios – Hollywood. It’s an amazing place with loads of fun.

Then I flew to San Jose and here again loads of meeting. So one night I suddenly decided will drive to San Francisco. The drive was lovely and we went pass through the Golden Gate (bridge) and lost our way, then drove back with some of the instructions provided to me earlier on how to drive in North America.

Driving lessons:
# North / South roads connect different states
# East / West runs on freeway with Interstate
# Odd / even road number has some significance and then having the exists also numbered in the similar manner as well

Ok after so many lessons you are still bound to get lost if you are little adventurous, so here comes a handy GPS based navigation, this is an excellent way to navigate in US of A & in Europe as well.

Picure taken during one of the stops made on CA 1 S(read the message on the bench)

Ok during one of the two weekends of my stay in San Jose along with Anu & Hari’s family we ventured out to Monterey and Big Sur. A very nice drive is on the CA 1 S. Couple of pictures are attached here.

Picture at Pfeiffer Falls

Do something brave

I like this picture a lot :-)

Happy Valentine's Day

Wanna check your site archives

This is an amazing site, provides real time archives for any site you mention. I tried giving my blog address at this site http://www.archive.org/index.php and I was zapped to see 4 copies of mine there :-)
Very use full one if you are looking for lost information.
My friend Nagesh recommended me this site http://hewgill.com/xearth/index.html, some pretty interesting stuff out there.

Happy New Year

Appreciate what you have - this is what I feel always.
A few things I have decided to do, finish reading two books a month and the list is end less :-)