Tales Continue 0.2.0 Colorado road trip

This was my first outing out of El Paso since I have arrived and I thank my roommates for planning out the trip on the long memorial day weekend. Going by road had its own ups and downs but the ned of the day we returned back just in time, safe, satisfied and in one peice.... so what more do you need....

Lets start from the first day. We left on friday evening. There were 5 of us, Gaurav( apna kgp vala), Sunil (My room mate) and Amol and Uphar ( Sunil's friends). We rented a car and it was a caravan. Masto car... had automatic closing doors, power points for every seat , large and spcious. While the plan was to leave around 5:00 pm but we are Indians by birth and will continue to do so. So we started at 7:30 after loading the caravan with an ice box full of coke, water, chips and yes a Laptop. Well this was new to me. Never before I had travelled with a computer by my side. Aneways we started and soon different people were enjoying differently, peeche vaale started watching a movie, I was enjoying my role as a DJ and Sunil was enjoying the drive. Finally after 8 hrs of continuous drive we reached pubolo and stayed there for a night

The next day we were up early as we had an tight schedule. The first place we went to was abt 1.5 hr drive from pubolo, the Rolyal George Bridge in Canon City. It is the highest bridge in the world and is built over a canyon. It was a amzing site looking down the bridge. The place also had some amazing rides but due to the lack of time and the adventure of the next planned activity we didn't even tried to have one of those. We just rushed to our next destination. The next destination was white water rafting. :D. We reached the place, wore our gear and then were escorted to the river, During the way our guide told us about various things that might happen during the raft and how can we save ourselves. But I was charged with Adreline. No fears and never had a thought that any thing bad would happen. The river side was beautiful. There were mountain on two sides and the stream between them. It was a kind of valley. But the scene was awesome. The weather was with ous. There was no sun, just the clouds above and the cold chilling water below. The raft ride was again nedless to say amazing with some awesome pictures. We emerged from the water, thrilled and satisfied. These 2hrs were the most amazing ones till now. Back to the rafting place we changed and headed back to our new destination, The Seven Falls, Colorado Springs. It was an hour drive from canon city. The place Colorado Springs was awesome. The houses, the sorroundings, the weather all awesome. Finally we reached The seven Falls. This is a water fall which has seven different falls and during the evening time there is computerized lighting giving seven different colours to the waterfall.... Ya again awesome.... had a nice evening there took lots and lots of pictures.... and then finally winded up the day. But who knew that we still had things in store for us. Our plan for the night was to head to Denver. So we were enjoying a pleasent drive, satisfied as we had done lots and lots today and just hoping to reach Denver as soon as possible.

One thing I like about this place is that you can go anywhere easily with the help of google maps. Just type in the destination and the starting point and then its google who will take u there. But I don't what happened we realized that we were in the wrong direction. We had to go towards Denver but the sign boards were saying something else. When we realized this, we had already come about 68 miles from Denver and now had to head back. Ufffff!!!!!!!! our tired souls decided to drive back ince there was no othre option. Well I consoled everybody saying that a trip cannot be perfect, so something had to go wrong. Its good that nothnig bad happened. Everybody smiling was now ready to go. During the journey back I was sitting in the passenger seat besides the driver and Amol was sitting behind happy, as he had had a couple of beers. Every thing was going fine. Suddenly a car came from behind , towrds my side and Ran into our car. BUMP!!!!! was all I remembered. But nothing much happened. We all were safe and so was the other car. The driver came to us asking whether we all were right and all of us, thake haare, were confused as to what was going on. She said lets not stand here because it was a highway and we should stop at he next highway. But something struck me. I asked Uphar to note down her car number in case.... but where the damm pen!!!! "write on mobile... jaldi jaldi...... was what I suggested it. Now as expected the girl escaped and didn't know what to do. We stopped at some place. Now we had two options... either to call the cops and report the accident or not. We should de so becuase the car was on rent, although it was covered under insurance but still its US and you got to do whats right. But on the other hand Amol had his name on the drivers list for the car along With Sunil so if we call the cops there was a chance that they would say that Amol was driving and since he was a bit drunk, he caused the accident. In that case all of us would be screwed.... now what to do.... sabki phati hui thi.... none of us wanted to get into the jhamela with the cops as this was US and not India..... ab kya karen.... finally after a 30 min long dicussion we arrived at the conclusion that we will not call the cops and continue with the journey.

All of us were wondering that how the situation tured around. Saala subah itne mazze kiye aur ab sab ulta phulta ho raha hain.... and jab bhi kisi police vaale ki gaadi baju se nikalti thi lgta tha yeh humare liye hi aa raha hain.... sabki phati hui thi...... so we decided to stop where we were as it was enough for one day.

The next day we had plans to wake up at 5:00 am but the toll we had taken last night was against it. We woke up at 10:30 knowing that theres nothing much that we can do today.... so decided to make the most of it..... called up friends in El paso to search for an indian resturant here in Denver, and so the it was afternoon that i had the best lunch after coming ti US... an Indian Buffet... wow!!!!!! stilll smells yummy. aneways after the luch we decided to watch the movie Fanaa but the show was not till 7:00pm.... thus went to Dave and Busters..... its a place where there video games and stuff.... ek dum masto jagah hain.... finally after having a really good time at this place we headed to the movie...... chand sifarish jo karta humari...... :D, the movie...... the first half was nice and the second half sucked. Don't watch it as a moive , but go for it if u r a Kajol fan because she's looking tooooooooo cute and sexy in the movie..... and ya the song are nice...... and yes we also had samosa during the movie instead of popcorn.... and with that our Indian day came to an end.

Finally the last day we had to go futher north, abt an hour's drive to the rocky Mountain natinal park. This place was heaven on Earth. I really don't have the words to describe it.... see it ur self in th pictures.... loved it... and have decided to come here for my honeymoon..... and then at 7:00 pm in the evening yesterday we started our drive back home which is a 12hr drive if we don't stop and I and Gaurav had to be at work at 9:00 so the deadlines were tight.... aneways we made to home at 8:15 and i came to work an hr late today at 10.... wowwhat an weekend.

some stats:
travelled abt 3200 km in 3.5 days in car
took about 450 pictures
the minimum temparature we experienced was 37 F.... ya F not C :) and that too in summer clothes....
the fun Unlimited!!!!!