On Missed Signs....

Road trips are a lot of fun. Get a bunch of your buddies together, rent a car, get a map, have a vague idea of which direction you want to go, and you're all set. I've gone on quite a few road trips but the most adventurous ones have been those in which Rocky~ has figured. Rocky~ is this incredible chap who has this uncanny ability of coming up with THE defining moment(s) of the trip. We eagerly await these moments and he never disappoints. This is what happened the last time around......

It all started on 20-07----2007,,, yeah July 20th, R~ graduation friends were coming to our place, G~ and A~, both are married couple.

I don't know them, But R~ is a gud friend, and they are gud friends of R~, so by transitive property, I judged them as gud, I know what you are thinking, yeah I am crazy and stupid, but still Iam. :)

R~ friends came around 8pm, we had a small chat, and then dinner time, then bye bye time, we had dinner at TAJ INDIA, florence, the only place to get indian fud in and around us. They left and we started thinking about the next two days....

Finally decided to "Rent a Car" and we move around, I hav Zero knowledge of wht and how to drive, But R~ has, but indian streets and indian rules.

We went to enterprise car rentals near airport, but unfortunately found any, the rental guy helped us in providing one of the address at NEWPORT and by taxi we finally reached enterprise @ newport.

Believe me with indian driving license (specially designed and developed in BIHAR), we finally rented the car with a gud deal of $20 per day.

Now the actual adventure starts.....

We thot to go bak to hotel first, take rest and then we will move around. But the initial task was lot tougher though... R~ never drove a car in other countries, and without knowing rules, right hand driving, and no driving directions,.... some how we managed to get some directions of 471 south, 75West,,,

After some help with enterprise guys knowing wht is wht inside the car, we started,, I know people behind our car, how they wud hav suffered, they honked, but for us it doesn't mattered, we wanted to go to our destiny no matter what,,,, and we missed the 471S,,,,,,

Deeply in trouble, we just scared, neither me nor R~ had any idea how to move proceed, we just wanted God's grace. Taking all the planless directions we are in Cincinnati downtown, we stopped at parking space, and R~ called his friend G~ for help, he guided him with directions, we take a U turn at wrong place, and after driving for some more time, we came into right track of 75, we keep going, and finally reached the destination we want.

Thank the Almighty,,,

We just relaxed for few min, reminding all the stupid things we had done. It was a very gud experience.

Evening R~ practiced in and around hotel, and slowly picked up the rules, and me too. I try to learn and succeeded in it.

Next day, sunday morning, we went to florence mall, with all the directions in place, and again drive around hotel, and evening we left the car at enterprise @ airport.


Lots of lessons we had leart..


We are planning to rent a car next weekend, Is tht happened?? Check in my next post......:)