World Beyond Imagination

For this year birthday, I thought i would spend my time with ma UG friends. But as it was a road trip, I had to get my Driver’s License first. With help of ma friend Rajesh Batchu [ma ex roomie], I practised on the roads of Chicago and took the road test at 95th street. Surprisely, I got the license sooner than I expected as I wasn’t driving cars back at home. Targeted Places: Atlanta, Columbus-Georgia, Greenville, Smoky mountain.

Day 1 [Thursday]: Reached Atlanta airport, Hired G6 and drove to Columbus. The drive was roughly 2 hrs. Nice road with decent traffic. Anita [one of ma close friend in college] had really yummy dinner ready for me.

Day 2 [Friday]: Ball Game Day. Friday afternoon, trip with Anita in the Columbus downtown … & abt downtown … hmmmm .. well … actually … no comments! Friday evening, Anita and I went to Atlanta to return the car. At airport, our goody goody friend was waiting for us so patiently. Man .. this guy has lotz of patience. That’s for sure! We went to base ball game @ Turner’s Field - Atlanta Brave Vs Philadelphia. Pretty close game that Atlanta lost in the extra innings. After that, our eyes fest with lengthy beautiful firework show. Back to Columbus to Anita’s place that night.

Day 3 [Saturday]: Voice Chat with karthick … ma another close friend .. he is in Canada. The moto was to make jealous and I guess we did. Target for the day was Little Grand Canyon. But before going there, we had a hop at few malls. Little Grand Canyon was an hour drive from Columbus. Did a small trail long .. grrrr!!! all thanks to Arun with great sense of direction … After the trail, while we heading back to home, we lucky spotted a lake. We stopped there for the sun set. It was a beautiful evening.

Day 4 [Sunday]: Hot day @ Atlanta Downtown. Went to Underground, few parks, CNN building, World of Coco cola and lunch at chennai chettinad. After filling lunch, we went back to Columbus. Thanks to Arun for being generous in dropping us back to home and had to drive back to greenville [4 hrs drive].

Day 5 [Monday]: Trip to Walmart! … ya .. even i had same reaction. but i just want to go for walk and so near most was walmart!

Day 6 [Tuesday-Wednesday]: Anita got awesome yummy choco cake. It was a nice bday celebration. Go to be with very good friends!

Day 7 [Wednesday]: took greyhound to Greenville with a hop @ Atlanta. To Arun’s place. He was pretty gud guy that he came to bus stop to pick me up. That evening we tried to go to a hang out spot. Pool, dance floor and bar. The funny part was that for 3 days continuously we went there but it was closed for the 3 days. So for all the three days… we went for the movies. If we would have gone for 2 more days, the workers @ the movie theatre would be calling us with our name! First time premier show of ma life - Hulk. During the day, I was trying to solve the cube

Day 8 [Thursday]: Arun was busy with his work, went out for lunch in a thai restaurant.

Day 9 [Friday]: for dinner, we went to a chinese restaurant with Arun’s colleagues.

Day 10 [Saturday]: Road trip to Smoky Mountain. Lots of trail. By mistake, instead of going for easy trail, we went into the hardest trail and we got exhausted real badly. Then we took a scenic drive. The drive was indeed beautiful but problem was that, we were running low of time, water, food and we need a place to halt. Finally, we found a small town. We had yummy dinner at steak house and peaceful sleep.

Day 11 [Sunday]: Drive back to Greenville to get ma lauggage and drive back to Atlanta for Kamal Hassan’s Movie Dasavatharam. We have been fight against with heavy traffic that we narrowly escaped the speed ticket! Sunday night after the movie, Arun dropped at airport. I have to do overnight stay as I got flight next day morning. I had a second thought of visiting Ravikanth.. another old undergrad friend who came to Atlanta recently.