Get up early and mosey on over to Lake Merritt in Oakland. And make sure that you take a spin in one of the gondolas.

Emandal Farm: A Farm on a River, on the River Eel in Eastern Mendocino County.

Spend the day over at Muir Beach and then take a breather in Mill Valley. A day in Marin.

Head on down to Santa Cruz for a change of pace. Mondays and Tuesdays are 1950s nights at the Boardwalk.

Leslie heads up to Albion for an evening. Sounds dreamy, doesn't it? It is.

Sick of Inverness? Go down the coast. Pescadero and San Gregorio offer some light relief from your bleeping modem and city traffic.

Is time valuable in India?

A night at a backpacker's institution South of Madras

The Andaman Islands: Listening to one's gut instincts. Foolhardy?

Losing the plot in Southern India

Kerala: A grumpy tourist

Kerala: Backwater boat trips, 100% literacy rate, and Communists

Hot and dusty in Coimbature plus a few unnecessary things in the backpack.

On safari at Bandipur National Park

A day and a night on the Indian Railways

India Internet World

Men and roads in India

Arrival into Delhi: India for the first time

A British leftover hill station

An encounter with the police while driving in Southern Thailand.

Crocs in Penang