last weekend's road trip!!

sorry this took so long to put up.. but here it is finally.. the account of the road trip we went on last week. also see the pics in the side bar!!

all set for the road trip.. we did get stuck with a stupid small car (chevy aveo) for a while, but then got the dodge neon... bright red in colour.. a little cramped, but will do.. ash, sank, vip, mal and i.. left around 10 on thursday night.. the time in the car was hilarious.. kept on cracking jokes.. ash and sank did most of the driving.. went the harrisburg PA route to get to baltimore at around 6 in the morning.. drove past the bayside area to get to the marriott where vip's sis deepti works.. she took us to her apartment.. we showered and cleaned up, and ate samosas and parathas.. heavenly!! we relaxed for a bit, then went out to walk around the bay area there.. beautiful and warm.. feels great to be out of buffalo!!

drove to washington then.. and got a bit stuck in the crazy traffic.. we'd left b'lo without our atlas.. so struggled manfully with the yahoo maps.. did get a little lost in a 5 block by 5 block area.. in washington d.c. downtown proper.. it was very irritating, knowing exactly where you are, but at the same time not being where you were supposed to be.. got there, setlled down in the afty, then vip's friends rahul and purva showed up, and we went to 'The Mall'.. and no people, that is NOT the shopping area.. but this mile-long or so strip which has the LIncoln Memorial, Washington Monument on one end, and Capitol Hill on the other - in between are most of the major museums in the area.. pretty awesome place, just that we got tired of walking.. especially after having been on the move all last night.. the White House was also there somewhere.. spoke to aditya saini.. but didn't get a chance to meet him.. at night we met a friend of sank's - thomas and his gf, and we all went out partying in d.c. - area called adam's morgan.. which is a 2-block area with an amazing number of clubs, pubs n restaurants in it.. pretty amazing place.. had dinner at an ethiopian place, then went dancing to a latino club.. but after that we were really knackered, so we walked down the strip, and went and chilled out at the Marriott we were staying at.

next morning we were up bright and early.. a little earlier than necessary thanks to some people's watch alarms!! (grr!!) another one of vip's friends, rishi came over and we drove to blacksburg.. successfully getting stuck in the traffic the I-81 is so famous for.. we got into VTech around 4 ish, and went to ash's friend anamika's place.. had a late lunch, chilled out for a bit then went out to the downtown.. it was a pretty small downtown, just 2 blocks and 4 pubs.. but ok nonetheless.. danced like crazy and were pretty wired up by the time Woody's closed at 2.. so we moved the party to shiv's house.. who is in seattle!! his roomies rohan and bhushan are actually sank's college-mates.. so we took out our stock of scotch and vodka which we carried on our travels.. and got busy!!

woke up on sunday morning arnd 9ish.. really groggy and fuzzy.. we were up till arnd 5 drinking, then got home and crashed.. after breakfast we drove up to this place called Claytor Lake, a pretty little lake, where we chilled out and relaxed the day away.. they had a little artificial sand beach, and we played some beach volley too.. and i spent more time diving around preventing the ball landing on pretty people in bikinis and getting sand on them!! fun times! had an early dinner and piled into the car for the ride back.. the return route was via pittsburgh, though we were quite sure the temple there wouldn't be open at 3 in the morning, so we didn't stop there!!