Weellll...
After 2 days of non stop travel... finally have access to the internet to this awesome little youth hostel at harper's Ferry near Washington and Baltimore... Its sooo cool.. right next to the Potomac River... and is surrounded by trees and hills... and such beautiful stuff.
Well... recapping our trip... Clive and I started out on Monday .. at around 12:30 pm. So... we started driving... and driving... and we had not had lunch. So... around 3pm... we saw a White Castle!!!! So..we thought... AWESSSOMEEE ... especially after watching the movie (Harold and Kumar go to White Castle). So.. we went in... and ordered food! Well...it wasnt as great as we expected... and that was kinda expected.... But our adventure had started off to a good start. So.. we drove ... and drove... and I thought.. we need to bed down some place cheap. We had the number for a hostel in Ohio ..in the middle of a national park. So...we called them.... but they were packed:(. And the next closest (On our route) was at Buffalo.. so.. we just drove on and reached Buffalo, NY at 2AM (local time). We had reserved beds at a hostel there (By calling Raghu, finding out their number.. and calling them before they closed). They gave us a code to enter the building and left the keys and all out for us. After sleeping the night there... we explored Buffalo for a few hrs in the morning...( Some awesome buildings) .. and then headed out to Niagara..
...
...
...
Words cannot explain it. I was dumbstruck by the size and the magnificence of the waterfalls. We took the Maid of the Mist (Boat ride almost into the falls)... and .... (awed silence..)
Well.. we spent a few lovely hours there. Beautiful weather... awesome times....
Then we drove down to meet my friend Vamsi at Williamsport PA. After the absolutely FLAT plains and corn fields of Indiana ... the pennsylvania landscape... with its trees.. and mountains.. and lakes and rivers...were SO niice!! And Vamsi's aunt made Awesome food for us!! Chicken and Biryani (Spicy Spicy Spiiiicy).. and breakfast again. So... we spent the night out at an inn that Vamsi arranged... and then started down for Washington. But... the hostel at Washington was fully booked. So.. we came to Harper's ferry.
This place is the halfway point for the Appalachian Hiking Trail. Really nice little hostel... with lots of hikers... friendly people. Internet access... lots of books..etc. So.. we plan to catch a train down to DC in the morning... and go to some museums...etc.
Well... it's been a really interesting trip for me. And I've been getting a lot of driving practice... we got lost in Baltimore (which we were passing through.. and decided to explore on a whim)... drove through cloudbursts (I could only see the tail lights of the guy in front of me..... BARELY!!)... drove the wrong side of the road(!!!! GAH ... GAH !!!)... drove at speeds I hadnt driven before (Upto 85-90 mph!!) and drove more than I had ever driven before. We walked through mist flowing down the roads.... kinda hiked down to the potomac river (First time I walked next to a river)... and so on.. and so forth.
So.... 3 days down...7 more to go!! Yayy....
Awriiight then... hope that kinda satisfies Lisa;).
And Lisa... Thanks for all the comments.:). I guess we share more than just a birthday. Maybe..someday..we should meet up and chitchat...
till laterzzz...
1 comment:
:D. It's just been soo nice... and such nice people. The eastern seaboard is sooo beautiful.
Will wave to 'grandma's ocean':D.
and I have been clicking away as usual... have a few hundred pics by now.... though the Niagara pics mostly were smudged due to the spray landing on the lens.
As for that fine.... aaargh... after this trip (Turning out to be a wee bit more expensive than I thought)...
*sigh*.. looks like I need to be working all of next semester:(. ;).
Post a Comment