A normal Saturday afternoon. I am getting bored. Have a lot of work to do but don't feel like working at all. Finally around 4 in the afternoon I decide to go for a long drive, but not sure where to go. I will decide when I am on the road. I get ready by 5, and load the car with the basic stuff. I am ready to leave when Nitesh calls. I tell him that I am going on a drive, but he sounds excited and tells me don't go, I am coming to your place in 10 mins. And guess what, he comes home in a brand new Mercedes C300 Sports!!!! Wow :) Really a reason to be excited. And this calls for a party. So we have a little celebration at Nitesh's house but I am not drinking!!!!! The drive is still on my mind!!!!
At 11.00 PM, I leave his place still thinking about where to go. Finally I decide to go up North and decide to take I5 North :) I keep on moving north and have traveled around 350 odd miles. It is around 5 in the morning and I am a little tired and a little sleepy. So I decide to call it a ride and turn back to get home. But at that very point of time I enter Oregon and man what a sight it was. One of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. Its 5 in the morning, I am surrounded by green trees and I can see mountains ahead of me which are shining like silver. I just wish I had stopped somewhere and clicked some pics of this beautiful scenery. I was so mesmerized by the beauty of my surroundings, that I forgot to take the U-turn. I was neither sleepy nor tired anymore! I just kept on driving and driving, when around 8 in the morning I realized that I have come more than 500 miles!!!!!!! Although I would have loved to go further North, but I had to be at work first thing in the morning the next day, so I decided to take a U-Turn and head back home.
On the journey back I took a couple of detours on the historic highway 99. Around 10 it became warm enough to put the top down and enjoy the sun. Driving on the highway 99, with the top town and sun shining in, narrow 2 lane roads, passing through the country side was an awesome experience. When on the highway, driving at 80-90 miles an hour, with the top down, the wind beating my face and the sun shining on the head, with a lot of 'Coming Back to Lifes' and 'Highway to Hells' and 'Kandisas' on full blast, I was surely in heaven.
After having consumed almost 4 tank fulls of gas, i reached back home at 6.30 in the evening. I know people think most of my trips are crazy, but this one was crazy even by my own standards. I had driven 1700 kms in 19.5 hrs, all alone and that too without any destination!!!!!! However insane it may sound, but this was one of the best trips of my life. It was a dream come true and I wish I get to do many more such trips in life.....
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