Downtown Disney!!!

Downtown Disney is a small area nestled between the two Disney resorts in Anaheim, California. Its a beautiful, cozy place filled with shops and restuarants. We were there yesterday and had a ball! We reached there in the afternoon when not much was happening, and we flitted in and out of half a dozen shops without buying anything. Towards evening the place magically started filling up, and by late evening it was crowded and chock full of people. There were live performances, and a huge huge crowd at the House of Blue. The atmosphere was amazing, the evening a bit chilly, but cozy under the gas burner where we sat at Tortilla Jo's sipping wine and later enjoying a good dinner.

Happened to catch some fine performances by Drew Tretick. Of course, I had never even heard of him, or his music before. I mistook him for a (very talented) street performer. He plays the violin and his music was impeccable. It was enrapturing. I took some photos of him and even made a couple of videos of his performance. He is awesome. Turned out that he's an internationally recognized star!

Performing for the audience at Downtown Disney.

Signing an autograph for a young fan.

Photoblog: Speedzone

Dragsters at the Speedzone, originally uploaded by ZeHawk.

Dragsters off to a flying start at Speedzone in LA.

Around the world in 80 days?

Its strange. Did my stars every foretell that I would be travelling to so many cities around the world, see so many places, meet so many people? I'm in LA now, a beautiful city indeed. I've photos from all over the world... San Francisco, Haifa, Cairns, Tel Aviv, Chicago, Singapore, Istanbul, Boston, Taiwan.

Every place has a unique culture, a unique look. Be it the summer holiday look of Cairns, the fast-paced-sky-scrapered look of Chicago, or the colonial look of Singapore, the laid back look in San Francisco, night-life look of Tel Aviv or even the boston-brahmany look in Boston.

A toast to more such travels.