https://micro.setu.me/tags/travel/Recent content in Travel on Setu's (micro)blogHugoenMon, 27 May 2024 16:58:19 -0700https://micro.setu.me/posts/embracing-the-discomfort-skiiing-edition/Mon, 27 May 2024 16:58:19 -0700https://micro.setu.me/posts/embracing-the-discomfort-skiiing-edition/In February 2021, a friend took us skiing for the first time. In the excitement of the opportunity, I severely under-estimated the difficulty of skiing, especially for someone who had never skated before (on land or ice). We went straight to the lift, up the mountain, and down the slope. And I fell. A lot. But that was also the day I decided I wanted to learn to ski and that I would be back.https://micro.setu.me/posts/why-use-apple-maps/Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:33:14 -0800https://micro.setu.me/posts/why-use-apple-maps/For over 3 years now, since I moved to USA, I have primarily relied on Apple Maps for all of my travel and mapping needs. And the reasons for it, in more or less my order of priority, are pretty simple: Apple Maps has all the places and locations I have ever wanted to go to. There hasn’t been a single place that I have tried to go to and not found it on it.https://micro.setu.me/posts/statue-unity/Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:53:14 -0800https://micro.setu.me/posts/statue-unity/Almost about a month ago, I visited the Statue of Unity (SoU), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s statue near Baroda. Hailed as the biggest statue in the world, this was my first experience of visiting a tourist destination in India after living and traveling in USA for over 3 years. Here are some of my thoughts and observations from that visit, in approximate order of my visit: I was there on 26th December, 2019.https://micro.setu.me/posts/national-park-service/Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:56:58 -0700https://micro.setu.me/posts/national-park-service/It has been just over 3 years since I have been in the USA, and in this time I have come to realize that one of my favorite things about USA is the National Park Service. I have visited more than 15 national parks in various parts of the country, hiked across most of them, and marvelled at the things I saw. I have experienced snow-clad mountains, scorching deserts, canyons that have been shaped over millions of years, hot springs sitting on volcanoes, tiny streams, glacial lakes, and rivers with lush waterfalls.