An afternoon spent with my boss SubbaRao and his family biking in the Half Moon Bay Coastal Trail. Morning was not promising as it kept on raining but it cleared up in the early afternoon, and the weather was lovely for ~8 miles of biking.
Every Sunday we end up thinking about the upcoming Monday Blues. Thanks to my super-cool boss, I haven't felt that after I got out of IISc. His daughter is here for her spring break and they decided to go for a hike on Monday morning. Boss asked me if I was interested to join them and of course I was :) It so happened that he didn't come at the end but Sarada and I joined his family anyways. We decided to go to Palo Alto Foothills Park. The weather was lovely, with a bit of shower now and then. The hike was beautiful too - the pictures will prove that easily. We didn't go to the end of trail but I intend to go there again and finish it. The only downside is that the park is reserved for the residents of Palo Alto. But there was no one to check that day. So I am sure it doesn't hurt to take a chance. You might get lucky...
After four lessons, we decided to go for a tandem hang gliding to experience how it feels to soar at 1000 ft. So before our fifth lesson, we scheduled for 2 tandem gliding each with our instructor Dave. Oh what an experience it was to soar at 1200 ft! Dave did all the controling in the first flight while we watched him and enjoyed the flight. During the second one, he let us coltrol the glider for a bit. He even let Joy land the glider! Hope this will help us in our fifth lesson. We just can't wait to get our hang1 licence and finish all the practice runs before doing the winch towing and glide at 1000 ft.
Here is a compilation of videos taken by Joy and me, and edited by Joy:
Dave had a GoPro camera attached to the glider to record the video of our flight. Unfortunately only one video got recorded - my first flight.
