Vatnajökull
A glacier hike seemed so far-fetched that it didn't cross my mind until Ragnar brought it up when we'd already come to Iceland. After choosing a glacier hike over an ice cave tour, we booked the earli
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Golden Circle
After Snæfellsnes, I wondered if our Iceland trip had already peaked there. No, it hadn't, and Iceland had so much more to offer. On our long journey back to Reykjavík, we had time to take a detour in
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Snæfellsnes Peninsula
We started our road trip from Ólafsvík in the northwest of Snæfellsnes Peninsula. From there, we would drive anticlockwise around the peninsula. The weather was clear and crisp, rather different from
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From Reykjavík to Ólafsvík
Ever since graduating from Mansfield College, Oxford in 2017, Jan, Ragnar, and I have been planning a trip to an exotic location. Inspired by the trip Ragnar and I took in Scotland, we decided to trav
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Point Reyes
A day trip in spring to Point Reyes with Nathaniel, where elephant seals rest and mate on the cliffside beach and cows graze on rolling green hills.
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Hong Kong and Macau with Hannah
Early January, Hannah came to visit in Hong Kong after travelling in Taiwan and Singapore. We saw the main attractions, had lots of good food, and hiked to Ngong Ping peak overlooking the Saikung. We
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Seattle and Portland
Before returning to Hong Kong, I stayed in Washington for a few days to visit Pralaksha in Seattle and Nathaniel in Longview. It was cloudy and rainy for most of my visit. On the day I left, Nathaniel
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Everglades and Naples
On my last day in Florida, Akshat and I took a road trip westward across the Everglades swampland towards Naples. After a stretch of highway, we entered a quiet two-lane road through the national park
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Miami and Key Largo
During Thanksgiving break, I travelled to South Florida to visit Akshat, where I stayed with his parents in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. Arriving in the early morning, I only went out around noon. We
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Boston
Flew to Boston with Hadar back in October to see some of her friends, as well as Nathaniel, in Cambridge. I had stupidly missed my flight, so I had to arrive half a day late and miss half of a concert
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Berkeley Fire Trail with Rocket Launch
A spontaneous hike on the Berkeley Fire Trail with Kiana on 8 October, 2018. Little did we know, that was the day that SpaceX launched an Argentinian Earth observation satellite from Vandenberg Air Fo
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Marin Headlands
A casual hike with Hannah on the cliffs of Marin County on a cloudy day. It was windy, a little chilly. We followed whatever looked like a trail. There were birds in formation, birds resting and takin
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Angel Island
One foggy summer morning, Kiana and I took a boat to Angel Island, in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. We got some sandwiches from the pier and walked up towards the peak. The full view of the Bay
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Los Angeles
After Fourth of July, I took a short trip to Los Angeles to visit Mike Prijatelj and Nick Sukhov. I hadn't seen Mike in 2 years and Nick in 6. I unfortunately came at the worst time of year, where the
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Haleakalā Crater
To conclude our trip in Maui, Nathaniel, his dad, and I went to hike at the top of the (inactive) Haleakala volcano, the larger of the two mountains that make up Maui. It is just above 3,000 m tall an
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Hāna and Napili Beach
On the third day, I went with Nathaniel and his parents on a day trip to Hana, located on the eastern, more humid, side of Maui. After a long drive on wet winding roads through scattered showers and o
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Waihe'e Ridge Trail and Nā-kālele Blowhole
On the next day, I drove the SUV that Nathaniel's parents had rented from the western side of Maui to the northern side. While the roads on Maui are winding overall, these roads continuously worsened,
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Lāhainā Pali Trail
Right after Nat visited me in Berkeley, I flew to Hawaii to join Nathaniel's family for a vacation on Maui. After seeing a blood-orange moon rising in the pitch-black night sky, distorted on the horiz
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Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is a large park that extends from the centre of San Francisco to the western shore. Besides the large grass fields and tall sequoia trees, it hosts a lake with ducks and turtles, a hi
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The Pier and the City
Our San Francisco trip continued with a tour of the city itself. First, we walked from the Railway Museum on Market Street to Pier 39 to see some fat lazy seals. We then boarded USS Pampanito, a World
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Battery Spencer, Lands End, and Twin Peaks
On the first day of Akshat's visit, I decided to show him all the best views of San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean. We started at Battery Spencer, an old military battery just north of the Golden Gat
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San Francisco 2017-2018
As soon as I arrived in the Bar Area in August 2017, I took a day trip to San Francisco to meet Pralaksha, who came to visit from Seattle. We had dim-sum, walked around Chinatown, and hiked up to Coit
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California Highway 1
The Pacific coast in California is an amazing place. The entire coastline is accessible through the scenic Highway 1. When Akshat visited in April and Natalie visited in May, we drove down from Berkel
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Lake Tahoe with Nathaniel L.
Nathaniel and I rented a car to drive to Lake Tahoe over Thanksgiving long weekend. Instead of a small car, we were offered a large pickup truck. First time I drove a pickup truck! After a long scenic
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Oxford Graduation and North Wessex Downs
On 3rd November, 2017, I graduated from the University of Oxford, completing MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics. I flew from San Francisco to London just to attend the one-day ceremony and to
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