trips

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Dubuque, IA to Grand Rapids, MI June 21-23, 2013

Michigan lake shore at Saugatuck Dunes State Park

Hotel in Grand Rapids, MI

Downtown Grand Rapids - Street Chalk event

Monday, May 20, 2013

Trip, 2015 summer?

Hello everyone!

I thought it would be a great idea to plan a trip for us middle-aged dudes! Similar to what 4 of us did above.

Some thoughts

At least 4 days
Great scenery
Hiking
Mountain biking?
Camping
Fishing
Colorado/Utah/?

Please leave ideas etc. below so we can get the ball rolling. Please don't forget to include your name.

The link above is from one of my most memorable trips. We hiked down (5hrs) camped and hiked back up(8hrs)

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Peoria, Illinois April 20-21

Bradley University Women's Club Soccer 5K Run Fundraiser
Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:00 am to 10:00 am CST Peoria, IL

Time 28:07 on a very hilly course. Personal best

(Left to Right) Pete Karagianis, Ivan Wijetunge, Thomas Friske

Round 1 Ivan vs Jon Winick (1-0)

Saturday, April 13, 2013

St Louis 4.13.2013

Pretty slow, but it's only my 2nd 5k in five years.

Complete results here

I took a bye in round 1 and was paired against my good friend Nolan Hendrickson from WI. We were team mates in the 2011 Texas Team tournament and won 1st place U1900.

Legendary GM Yasser Seirwan. You can read more about him here

Karthekeyan

Bhagya.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Summer 2010 (June 14 to ...)

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June 14-16 Dallas

17 Nashville

18-23 NY

24-25 Salem, Massachusetts

26 Vermont, New Hampshire

27-28 Camden, Maine

29 30 31 July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 New Brunswick, Canada

8 Quebec

9 Ottawa

10-17 Torornto

18 Windsor

19-23 Chicago, Milwaukee

24-27 Green Bay

......

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Kumi in Aussie 2010
April 19 - May 12

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Day 15Library and park.

Day 14Took the train to Central station, walked to Darling Harbour and visited Wildlife World, then took the people mover to Paddy's Market.

The first (and only) visit to a McDonalds in Aussie.
Riding the people mover
We got to touch a Kangaroo

Day 13Another quite day. Park & grocery shopping.

Day 12A quiet day. Park and Library

Day 11
Had lunch a German restaurant called the Concordia Club with Niranjan, his family and friends. It was a kid friendly place, with live music and dancing. After that Kumari and I took the train to the city and the ferry to Manly. Kumi had loads of fun at the beach.

Day 10
Went to the botanical gardens, in downtown Sydney.

Day 9
Went with seeya to the dentist. While he was with the dentist, we went to a Turkish food place. We had chicken kabab and Turkish bread right out of the oven. It was oh so good!

Shakaaaa

Day 8
Stayed local.

Day 7
We took the train to the city and enjoyed a beautiful day.

Day 6
Today was a quite day. We went for a walk in downtown Padstow, to the library and the park.

Day 5We went to the IKEA store during the day. Made another trip to the park later.

At the IKEA store.

Day 4Today we went to Niro's parents place for lunch. We left at 8:30 am and got back around 6:30 pm. It took about an hour to get there. We took 2 trains. There were 3 other little girls there & Kumi had a lot of fun. Sierra in the middle is Niro's brother's daughter. They live in New Zealand.

Day 3

We met my friend Niro in the city and took the ferry to Watson's Bay. Kumi had fun playing on the beach. Niro's daughter Maya is 3 months younger than Kumi.

Niro & Maya

Day 2
We went to a local church that had play time from 10:00-12:00. Kumi had a lot of fun. There was play time, craft time,singing time & eating time.