Friday, July 11, 2008

The funny road trip

The road trip
As i said before, i am doing my internship at this place called Cranberry thats like 30 miles from the main city Pittsburg.How i ended up coming here is all together a funny story but for now i am writing about the road trip from state college to this place that kept me laughing for more than a week after!!
So me, my friend and his temporary room mate(whose car we came in btw) decided that we would go around Pittsburg, coz its supposed to be the city of bridges and has a baeuty of its own .. While at it, noone would miss visiting lord venky at the famous Pitt kovil. So my brilliant as ever friend finds the route map to the temple from the website.So we are all set and leave at 9 in the morning... I dressed in Salwar owing to the temple visit , all jubilient as ever to venture out!!My friend and his room mate confidently drive in the direction right opposite to the one i took for my previous visits... this intrigued me but since they were going by his map, i never thought of mentioning.. after 4 hours drive, we end up at a place called Lancastar which is where the temple is claimed to be according to the website.. Enquires around didnt seem to reveal even signs of a temple nearby.. That freaked us out and my friend calls up the temple people.. Apparently, the address was wrong and we had ended up in a place diagnally opposite to the temple in the map of the city.Another 10 hours drive along hills and barren fields got us to my place.. We counted the number of hills that we climbed during this lengthy journey right across Pitt and guess wat, we had climbed 7 hills.. 7 hills to Tirupathy!! We were following the protocol to visit this venky too :P
I was dead tired that i hit the sack as soon as i set foot into the house.. surprisingly my friend and his room mate didnt seem that tired at all.. and they continued after a sumptuous dinner back to state college, yet another 3 hour drive..
All in all, a road trip that ended up taking 13 hours when it could have been covered in 3 hours..
Lancaster by the way has some scenary spot, we just missed that ;)