Lamborghini anyone ?

We went to San Francisco and went looking for motivation to work.  This is what we found :)

Car dealership in SF.. very nice car dealership

Thanks to the really cool gentleman who let the 3 broke software devs into his dealership to look and take pictures with his cars :) If I buy a lambo in SF I will definitely buy it from him LOL

SF is a beautiful city.

Here is a quick video of some of the footage I got :)



Till the next update,

:)

ps I went to LA and Vegas this last weekend so watch out for the next video

On the road again ..

It didn't take long before I was back to my old ways.  We rented a car over the weekend and covered close to 800 miles.

Saturday started with Korean BBQ and thrift shopping for some old ski clothes for us to wear on sunday to go skiing.  Followed by a trip to san francisco to see Lombard street and the golden gate bridge.  After which we drove around the bay area and had chinese food in Oakland.

Sunday we woke up "early" and hit the road headed to lake Tahoe.  It was absolutely breathtaking.  Its on the border of California and Nevada so there was plenty of Casinos and nice ski resorts.  People were skiing in minimal clothing ..  It was so strange to see people in ski gear getting changed into shorts and Ts in the parking lot.  We never made it to ski since we took too long to get to the mountain, maybe another weekend.

Here are some pictures of our weekend and a video because you all know how much I love using my gopros

Golden Gate

Me James and Peter

Sunset from a vista point near the GG

One part of Lake Tahoe

Me

GoPro FUN 

Lake Tahoe

and.... here's the video :)

Till the next update,

:)

Its been a while...

Hello world  ! .. again

I have been on a few travels since the last time I wrote here but I found myself in a very familiar  circumstance yesterday and thought it deserved to blogged about.  The circumstance? I was grocery shopping with my colleagues and said to myself.. "I miss home cooking".  For those of you who don't know I am currently in Sunnyvale California with 2 of my colleagues coding our brains out.  We went shopping at the closest place we can get groceries ( Costco) which is about a 20 minute walk.  We were walking through the aisles and I could see all the great food that I would normally throw in the carriage if I was shopping with my mom but didn't since I was paying the bill this time. Don't worry I don't miss it enough to head home just yet :P and yes I am spoiled.

Other than that Sunnyvale is a nice quiet place and being in the silicon valley is a great experience (Thanks OOHLALA ! )

If history repeats itself I will surely be updating this blog with a few adventures while I am here ;)

Nice to be back.

Here's some pics I've taken since I've been here

Costco pricing on Alcohol.. something MTL doesn't have

Closest to home cooking we can get

Sign in front of our complex

3am.. waiting for our Treasure hunt game to end.. why not play some D&D

Till the next update,      
:)

Back home :)

Its been a little over a week now that I have been home and so far I have had numerous parties thrown in my name, got to spend time with my family and loved ones and celebrated my birthday and Canada day with beautiful weather.  If I had known I would have got such an amazing welcoming I would have come back sooner :P

Travelling across the world really makes you appreciate what you have right in your own backyard.  Montreal is a beautiful city and I am very proud to call it my home.  We live in a beautiful country and I hope I will someday say I have traveled it like I traveled Australia.  In the meantime I can remember the great times I had in Australia and gaze at my desktop screen savers while I work hard to pay down my debt :)

Australia was a fantastic trip and a wonderful experience.  I grew as an individual, have become more confident in myself and the things I can achieve and have taken some really nice photos and experienced some once in a lifetime events :) I want to first thank all of those who have supported me through this journey with mailed care packages or with emails and words of encouragement :) I missed you all while I was away and I am happy to be able to see all of your wonderful faces again in person! :) 

I have done crazy stuff like scuba diving, rafting, sky diving and bungie jumping.  I hiked through rainforests and deserts and surfed beautiful beaches and even though my exchange has now come to an end, I will keep my new found sense of adventure and continue to travel and live life to the fullest.  Already since I have been back I learned to shoot a rifle, went camping and took on life with a new revitalized spirit !

This may be the end of the Australia chapter for now, but isn't the last you will hear from the traveling nerd :)

Thanks to all my loyal fans and supporters! especially my GGF and my family :)

Till the next update!
:)

Our last days and our trip to the Gold Coast

By now our exams are all done, we have finished all our assignments and are now preparing for our last cleaning inspection, closing all loose ends and saying goodbye to new friends.  The last few days were spent with the new friends we had made over the course of the semester, hanging out at our flat enjoy the last few days we would be calling this place home.

A last stroll in southbank

The city skyline, the last time we would see it :)

Our corridor :)

 We took the last couple of days to go back to gold coast and go see the hinterland (tropical rainforests and waterfalls) of the Gold Coast

Gold Coast Hinterland

Rainforest

Sushi with Dave :)

This brought us to our final cleaning and packing to leave the apartment.  It wasn't fun to leave but we were excited to come home and see our families and our old lives :)

Till the next update!
:)

Direction: Cairns, waterfalls and rainforests!

We again found ourselves in a position to travel :) after having such an amazing time driving in western australia we decided to do the same thing but in queensland instead ... The plan was to head north and see how far we made it but we ultimately decided to drive all the way to Cairns (our total journey lasted 4200 Km) and spanned a large part of the east coast ! :)

Along the way we stopped for photo ops and food :)

The sunset behind the sugar cane trains

Roger on one of the magnificent beaches of the east coast of Australia

Rock, sand and water :)

Wind farm in Raven (top of the mountain)

Low tide

ZEN

We would have loved to keep heading north but we ran out of time and had to come back to study for our last finals :) No worries we still got to see quite a bit :P

Till the next update!
:) 

Destination: Pink Lake

My last blog ended somewhere between the stars and the cold lol .. but fortunately to all sunsets there are sunrises to follow and we saw this one surrounded by giant limestone rocks that made shadows that streaked across the desert.  You could see the sunlight light up the desert like a line scanning across the desert floor.  It was awesome !

The shadows if the pinnacles

We then headed north again to hit Pink Lake (a lake with a pink hue due to a naturally occurring beta carotene) passing by a few cities on the way to have some fresh rock lobster and take some magnificent pictures :)

The pinnacles desert regional park

We saw sooo many kangaroos at night !

A picture of the side of the Indian ocean road, it wasn't always like this but you can see patches of sand dunes

A lot of farming along the highway once you are about 2 hrs north of perth

Me in front of the coral coast

Pink Lake!!!! Destination reached .. now time to hightail it back to Perth to catch our flight :)

What most of the highway looked like :)

Till the next update!
:)