Lynn:
Yes, Krishna is like Terry or Pat, sort of gender neutral ! Krishna in Sanskrit means black! Yes, I do know one of my sister's friends name is Krishna! Doug knows me, sort of, just like he knows a million other hikers who pass by him and feel happy to be part of his family for that moment! Sometimes I feel very envious of all of you, part of his circle, a circle with a background of water falls, bluish green lakes and these vast mountain-scapes, to which I plan and make my pilgrimage once a year and again feel part of his crowd, even just for an evening!
Some of the photos, I did share on the flickr. Please check them out!
Again thanks for the kind remembrances! Yes, I did visit the Laguna Beach temple and had fantastic egg plant curry, rice with sambar (a spicy soup they serve) and met a tall blond haired gentleman with blue California eyes, who saw me and my wife in a saree (obviously heard us talking in Telugu, our native south Indian language) and accosted us with "Bagunnara!!!" - a typical greeting in my language equivalent to how-are-you and started laughing at the surprise look on our faces!!! He was in peace corps and lived in South India and knows Telugu very well!!!
