The story is quite long so where shall I start ok….I’ll start from the very beginning. It was Saturday a very close friend of mine Venky gives me a call saying he is in AZ. I was both surprised and happy so I asked him what plans for the weekend he said he wanted to see Grand Canyon. I said I haven’t seen it personally so lets go. He and Gayatri picked me up at 21:00 AZ time from my place. First we went to his place (I was to sleep over at their place) we were to leave the next morning.
Well we all got up at around 7 am and freshened up had breakfast and decided to drive down. We left at 9 am for a memorable trip to the Grand Canyon. Fueled the car up and then off we went. We selected the North Rim to go …….its the wilder part of the canyon. While driving Venky was really speeding it was a 65 mph hour zone and he was going well over 80 the cop stopped us and we got a ticket that was bad though. We drove and reached mid way to the Grand Canyon and stopped for lunch. It was 12:00 hours Gayatri did some shopping at the store attached to the restaurant some collectibles and stuff. We again started driving heading towards the Grand Canyon we were all wondering why haven’t we reached yet. The GPS was still telling us to go straight……….at that time we figured its not so long and the GPS was wrong (we came to know later that it was right!). Gayatri and me were telling Venky to stop and we’ll click photos here itself but Venky was too determined to stop and he said that we’ll reach there no matter what!! Finally we reached the Grand Canyon at 5.30 in the evening we were all a lil tired(esp Venky poor guy was driving all the time) but full of excitement started taking snaps like typical desis (ofcourse to upload on Orkut or facebook lol)
Then we saw on the tourist guide that there is a sunset point about 15 miles from there we decided to go there on the way the car’s fuel gauge started beeping (low fuel) it was already 19:00 hours and was getting dark. The nearest fuel station was around 45 miles away and our Detroit gas-guzzler would go another 25 if we were cautious. So we decided to head back to the Grand Canyon Lodge to get some fuel. After having dinner and stuff we managed to get some fuel. We started driving back I slept off on the seat and later got up and took over the wheel from Venky and reached home at 5 in the morning. We were all tired and exhausted but a memorable trip over all.
Moral of the trip:
Always do some good research.
Never trust ur GPS
Look at the brighter side of things
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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