California’s Danish Fairy Tale

What does a Scandinavian country, known for rustic windmills, buttery cookies, and Viking history have in common with Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sea World, Silicon Valley, Yosemite and Disneyland? Apparently, California. We had driven up a beautiful coastal road early that morning, along a surreal blue ocean towards Southern California’s Santa Ynez Valley. Here, at just […]

Hola, Guadalajara!

Guadalajara? Where is that? How do you say it, again? In my home city of Mumbai, three continents, an ocean and a sea away from Mexico, most of us knew very little about the country. We knew it was the poor, desperate neighbor of the almighty USA and a haven for drug cartels that kidnapped […]