tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51254786626236313542024-03-18T22:53:13.572-04:00Travel Logs of the SomasundaramsThis is my travel blog. I will write about my travels to various local, national, and international destinations. You may find many useful items, ideas, and tips. I have started the blog just before our Japan trip. More will be added soon.Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-37933573537110079342016-08-28T08:09:00.000-04:002016-09-04T08:11:40.890-04:00Chennai to Tallahassee via Doha and Miami<div style="text-align: center;">
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I flew to Chennai (MAA), India from Tallahassee today afternoon. The overall flight was through the <a href="https://www.oneworld.com/" target="_blank">One World Alliance</a> partner airlines <a href="http://www.aa.com/" target="_blank">American Airlines</a> and <a href="http://www.qatarairways.com/" target="_blank">Qatar Airways</a>. My TLH to MIA flight was through Envoy Air 3462, a subsidiary of American Airlines and left around 4:00 PM and arrived after an hour at Miami.<br />
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After successfully finishing the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association at Denver, CO and after giving oral presentation, I left early morning from Denver, CO via Dallas Fort Worth, TX back to Tallahassee, FL.</div>
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Unlike the way in where I had plenty of time to take public transit, I had to rent a car to get to the airport since the public transit didn't start until 5:45 AM and I had to be at the airport earlier than 6:30 AM for my 8:00 AM flight.<br />
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I left this morning to Denver, CO in American Airlines from Tallahassee via Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. My first flight was from Tallahassee International Airport (TLH) to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The flight left around 6:40 PM local time and after approximately 2 hours landed in DFW airport at 7:30 AM local time.<br />
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Bhanu and I visited the John and Mable Ringling Museums in Sarasota (SRQ), Florida. We arrived around 11 AM after driving for about 45 minutes from Clearwater, FL. Since The Ringling Museum is part of the Florida State University and since I am faculty at FSU, I got a special rate while Bhanu paid the full amount.</div>
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The Ringling located on a 20 acre property off of the Sarasota Bay on the west coast of Florida peninsula has many individual museums: the circus museum, the Tibbals Learning Center, Mable's Rose Garden, Ca' d'Zan (<i>House of John</i> in Venetian dialect), Banyan Cafe, Center for Asian Art (opening in May 2016), Museum of Art, and Searing Wing.</div>
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We saw many of the buildings including the Tibbals, circus museum, the rose garden, the Ca' d'Zan, Asian Art, Museum of Art, and ate at the Banyan Cafe. The weather was perfect and unusually cool and dry (78F) for an early May.</div>
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We spent almost 6 hours at the museums and left around 4 PM toward Palm Harbor.</div>
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We woke up very early in the morning at a hotel in Panama City, Florida and drove to the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (<a href="http://iflybeaches.com/" target="_blank">ECP</a>). We parked our car in the <a href="http://iflybeaches.com/airport-info/parking" target="_blank">long-term parking</a> lot and took our luggages to fly to Atlanta. We were at Central Standard Time Zone.<br />
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We then drove few miles to get out destination hotel Tropicana Resort. It turned out there was a big super market for food called Super Food Plaza and Taco Bell fast food just next to our resort. We had dinner at Taco Bell and purchased groceries as our room was a full fledged one-bedroom apartment with separate bedroom, bathroom, living room, kitchen with stove, fridge, microwave, coffee machine, toaster, plates, cups, knives, pots and pans. We also got local currency (Aruba Florin and cents)</div>
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-87139999512537064442015-11-27T23:59:00.000-05:002015-11-29T10:14:43.328-05:00Head back home<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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After spending few days at Novi, Michigan and visiting Ann Arbor, MI, we headed back home on Friday evening. The snow in the ground started to melt yesterday and had completely melted by this morning. There was intermittent rain throughout the day.<br />
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-81900921757514956472015-11-25T16:00:00.000-05:002015-11-29T10:13:16.869-05:00Travel to Novi<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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We traveled to Novi, Michigan during the 2015 Thanksgiving Holiday break. We left on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 from home to Detroit Metro Airport (<a href="http://www.metroairport.com/" target="_blank">DTW</a>) via Atlanta (<a href="http://www.atlanta-airport.com/" target="_blank">ATL</a>). We flew in <a href="http://www.delta.com/" target="_blank">Delta </a>flights as that is one of the few flights out of our hometown.</div>
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Our early morning flight was pleasant and quick, however, we had to have our bag late-check in and that would make it hard to get the bag on our arrival in DTW. We had to come back to the airport for the next flight to get our bag.</div>
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We reached ATL by 8:00 AM and our next flight was only at Noon. So we checked to see whether we could go early but the cost of changing the flight was very expensive. So we went to TGIFriday and had breakfast. Even though the food was good it was very expensive with coffee costing extra $3.00/person even when we had breakfast!<br />
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-90646846717927989282015-08-11T17:55:00.000-04:002015-09-01T17:56:33.999-04:00Devils Tower National Monument<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-21968131831228510512015-08-10T22:00:00.000-04:002015-09-01T17:57:35.831-04:00Cody To Gillette<h3 align="center">
Cody to Gillette Wyoming</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">We woke up at the Cody Super 8 Motel. There were lots of Asian
travelers and hence had to go to the breakfast table many times to finish the
breakfast. Then we showered and packed the bags and left around 9 AM. From Cody w</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">e went to the Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone river toward
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looking for route 14-16 we drove to that road and went up and down. We were originally
in 14 West and even though numbers decreased they never got to the 1020. Then
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-37048005947185331742015-08-09T20:00:00.000-04:002015-09-01T18:02:06.342-04:00Visit Yellowstone National Park<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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We woke early and since there were no place to eat breakfast at Wapiti, WY, we had coffee and pancakes from the Green Park RV Park's owner's food truck. It was windy and cold in the morning and earlier in the night it has snowed in Yellowstone.</div>
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geyser in front row. There were some small eruptions in the other areas. Then
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becoming better. We sat outside and inside the building. V and B
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lot of photos and saw all the boiling pools and river. Then we went to
village and drove back. There were two road congestions. The first was due to
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photos and video of he bison and came to the visitor center bought some gifts
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">The night before we were unable to get the name of the hotel or reservation since neither my notes nor Google docs had the information due to late reservation. Finally after arriving in Cody around 8 pm we went to McDonalds and used its free Wifi to log into my Gmail and found out it was Super 8 motel and we had aleardy passed it onece. Anyway we went and checked in . The room was big with 3 pillows and we had shower and went to bed around 10 PM . we were very tired after a long day.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-29015008394598111872015-08-08T18:12:00.000-04:002015-08-29T12:23:04.711-04:00To Billings Montana<div style="text-align: center;">
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Billings, MT airport is small and similar to our Tallahassee airport. The first thing I noticed was neither of our T-Mobile prepaid or Virgin Mobile prepaid had any signal. That meant we won't be able to call anyone nor we could use the GPS of the neither of the phones. We were happy that our luggage made it to Billings, MT.</div>
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We then rented a car with Avis and soon rented a GPS device from them since our phones were not going to be helpful especially the rain started to pick-up the sky was cloudy (even though it was only around 1;30 PM MDT).</div>
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Then we drove toward Wapiti, WY in the rental car first via I-90 and then local routes. At Laurel, MT we stopped and grabbed some lunch at the McDonald's. We were able check our e-mail using our Smartphone using McDonald's Wi-Fi.</div>
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-6628717208974932172015-06-07T20:30:00.000-04:002015-06-18T12:03:18.574-04:00From Saskatoon<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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At MSP, I had to go through both immigration and customs. Fortunately, the Automated Passport Control (APS) and the airport helped me finish the process quickly. Then I had to wait for the luggage to arrive and cleared through customs and rechecked the bag. Fortunately, again the my gate was literally next to the plane from Canada. I then arrived at ATL around 1 PM.</div>
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My final flight to Jacksonville was at 3 PM and that arrived at JAX by 4 PM. I was surprised to see my luggage make it all the way from Minneapolis especially when it took a long time before everyone had collected their luggage.</div>
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-34415544033177824192015-06-04T16:26:00.000-04:002015-06-10T16:35:50.704-04:00Saskatoon, Saskatchewan<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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During my stay several things I noticed in Saskatoon that are different from the US. Some of things I saw are posted here.</div>
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Since I was in Saskatoon in June there was lots of light both at the end of the day, say till 8:30 PM and early in the morning, say 4:30 AM.</div>
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<br />There were lots of gophers in the University of Saskatchewan Campus. The South Saskatchewan river flows through the city.</div>
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-15509780725754941742015-06-02T09:45:00.000-04:002015-06-10T15:20:41.917-04:00Canadian Light Source<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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I came to the Canadian Light Source (CLSI) last night and stayed at the Ogle Hall. The taxi driver dropped me off around midnight and the CLS has provided the codes to open the door and arrangement has been made for me to enter the room.<br />
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I was kind of sleep deprived since I was still in ED Time Zone and Saskatoon was in MD Time Zone, so I had shower and went to bed quickly.<br />
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But around 4:30 AM there was lot light out since it is summer time and the latitude is around 62 North. So I woke up early and went to registration office by 7:30 AM and met with Shaun and got everything situated by 8:00 AM.<br />
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The Data Collection Workshop began by 9:00 AM and went on until 4:30 PM with lunch and coffee breaks. Then we toured the Facility and adjourned late in the evening.</div>
Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-33556405243256016282015-06-01T18:02:00.000-04:002015-06-09T18:19:04.649-04:00Onward to Saskatoon, Canada<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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I arrived at Jacksonville International airport around 4 PM. Parked my car in the Economy Parking Lot 1 and took the airport shuttle to get to the JAX airport.<br />
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Then my Delta flight to Minneapolis-StPaul left Jacksonville airport around 6:30 PM EDT and scheduled to arrive at MSP at 8:40 PM CDT. The flight was about 3 hours long and it was okay flight. Due to summer there was sunlight as we landed in Minneapolis-StPaul. I had to run to new terminal to catch my next flight to Saskatoon, SK.<br />
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My next flight was from completely in a different part of the terminal so I ran from F terminal to C terminal and there was only about an hour time and I had to have something to eat. I grabbed some sandwich at the C terminal and soon boarded flight to YXE. The flight was 2 hours long and arrived at Saskatoon, SK around 11 PM.</div>
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Unfortunately neither of my cell phones worked (T-Mobile prepaid and Mobal International). So I tried to log into Gmail. That got rejected because I was logging in from Saskatoon far away from home. So not wanting wait I took a taxi and went to Ogle Hall at the University of Saskatchewan campus. The ride was quick and costed C$22.</div>
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-57884447126645622132014-08-09T18:15:00.000-04:002015-06-10T15:27:13.622-04:00Gamla Stan and Skansen Stockholm<h4 style="text-align: center;">
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Somasundaramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09249473839108332340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5125478662623631354.post-63823298188754456782014-08-07T13:52:00.000-04:002014-08-29T14:43:51.383-04:00Aurlandsfjord and Nærøyfjord trip<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the second day we decided to buy <a href="http://www.visitoslo.com/en/activities-and-attractions/oslo-pass/">Oslo Pass</a>. We obtained it from our hotel last night. The Oslo Pass allowed us to ride all the public transport units (bus, tram, and subway) as well as free admission to multitudes of attractions like <a href="http://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/">Viking Ship Museum</a>, <a href="http://www.forsvarsbygg.no/festningene/Festningene/Akershus-festning/English/">Akershus Fortress</a>, <a href="http://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/">Nobel Peace Museum</a>, etc.</span><br />
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After arriving in Oslo, Norway this morning and enduring some rain we checked into the Hostel (we thought it was Hotel).<br />
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On Sunday, Aug 3 morning we left <a href="http://www.flyjax.com/">Jacksonville International Airport</a> and flew to <a href="http://www.panynj.gov/airports/newark-liberty.html">Newark Liberty International Airport</a> to Terminal A. We had a lay over of several hours at EWR and therefore we had some snacks and ate early dinner at the airport.</div>
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We found a <a href="http://www.travelex.com/">Travelex</a> currency exchange office right at the airport. After speaking with the agents we were able to get exchange some American Dollars to both Norwegian Kroner (NOK or NKr) and Swedish Kronors (SEK or SKr). The advantage with them was if he had excess krone or kronor we could exchange back to USD without fees.</div>
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Then at 8 PM boarded the United flight to Oslo, Norway. The flight was about 7 hours long and we ate some dinner and early morning snack before we landed in Oslo, Norway in <a href="http://www.osl.no/en/osl">Oslo Gardermoen International Airpor</a>t. It was bit cloudy and we went through immigration and customs and picked up our luggage.</div>
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We then bought tickets form the <a href="http://www.flytoget.no/eng/">Flytoget</a> train office to get to Oslo S (Oslo Central Station). We boarded the train and arrived at Oslo S after about 30 minutes. Just about that time it started to rain.</div>
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I travelled to ABQ to attend the American Crystallographic Association's 2014 Annual Meeting. I left town on Friday and went Albuquerque via Atlanta, GA. </div>
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I spent several days at Albuquerque attending the Conference and associated workshop on Saturday. </div>
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