Dreams, Moments, Travels
This year, we have been spending a lot more time with friends and less time traveling. Sometimes, we need to combine the two, so here we are on a day trip to Tucson to visit the Saguaro National Park, San Xavier del Bac Mission, and the Titan Missile Museum. Jay and Rinku shared their first Navajo Taco as San Xavier.
Krupesh, Rinku, Caroline, and Jay take a break on top of Piestewa Peak, a local Phoenix mountain, to take this photo of themselves eating Hajmolas. The photo is for me as they know how much I can not stand to smell these stinky “candies.” Hajmola is an Ayurvedic digestive aid that gives off a strong sulfur smell.
After our night in Artesia (Little India) and breakfast at a south Indian place called Annapurna, we drove out to San Gabriel for Sonal to visit Caroline’s favorite nursery here in L.A.
Sonal, Caroline, and I spent our brief weekend in Los Angeles on nothing but eating and shopping.
If you like bargain hunting, Chinatown and Little India are places made for dreams.
After spending a few hours here, we headed back over to Artesia so Sonal could do some shopping for essentials she’d drag back to Arizona for her small shop, Indo Euro Foods.
Ending the trip we had dinner at Rasraj.
Indo-Chinese food for the win!
One of the incredible pleasures of living in the Arizona desert.
Today is my 41st Birthday, and to make a simple note of it, we took a day trip south towards Tucson, Arizona. There is no better time to visit the wild desert than now, in springtime, and so our first stop was the Saguaro National Park. Flowers and cactus were blooming white, hot pink, and yellow.
The Sonora Desert Museum was stop number two, where we were treated to the sight of this Barn Owl, a Harris Hawk, and some confined wildlife. The Tucson Botanical Garden was almost our last stop; a birthday cake awaited me at the Silva’s home, and then it was back into the car for the drive home.
I probably had a nap to tend to or some other lame excuse, but for whatever reason, I did not opt to hike up Lookout Mountain with our gang.
Our gang is known as The Crazy Guju’s and Bad Ddhoriyo’s; you’ll find our tag “cGbD” all over north Phoenix. Lookout Mountain is our turf and so we have to send a patrol up here to make sure no Tamil’s or Telugu’s try to muscle in.
Jay will be standing guard here overnight.
After the gang was done up at Lookout Mountain, I joined them for a trip out to the Superstition Mountains in Mesa for a look around.