Today I am going to tell you how to prepare a New Year. Step
by step procedure is as follows.
1.
Select a famous place. I chose world famous The Times
Square.
2.
Make a trip plan. We made a trip to New York, Philadelphia,
and Washington DC.
3.
Put 4-5 people in a SUV. I chose few guys from
office.
4.
Add snacks as per taste. Got lots of snacks to
have it on the way.
5.
RIDE. We started directly from office.
It’s been long since I have
traveled anywhere. There were multi reasons for that. I guess, I was laying
low. Anyways travelling spree has returned, I am back. Ready to roll and rock
the planet. I like travelling by road/rail as it gives us enough time to get away
from the screened life plus it’s cheap. It would take 3-400
$ for flight to New York from Minnesota, hence we chose driving. My friend,
have no doubts about driving in US. Yes, it is easy, but still takes guts to drive
continuous for 20-24 hours.
Let’s get to point 1.
Let’s get to point 1.
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| Of course Times Square |
I heard a lot
about the Times Square, but never got a chance to visit Light City New York. We
had a long weekend and it was New Year’s Eve so I thought what could be better
than to celebrate it on the world’s most exotic place. People from all over the
world were there to witness 2016.
Crowd was so
huge that cops were closing streets one by one. We stayed
there for some time and then came back. Courtesy of my friends, that we didn’t saw
the boll drop.
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| Road Trip Plan MN to NY |
I was
planning to visit New York, Niagra and DC. But the group didn’t wanted to see
frozen Niagra, instead we included Philadelphia in our list. Car, Hotels and NY
tour was pre booked.
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| Crew Members |
Our initial plan
was to take a full size SUV as we had 5 people, but in the end one guy dropped.
Hence we booked an intermediate SUV. We got Nissan Rogue. NOTE: if you are
going interstate travels and know that those states will have tolls, it’s
better to have an eazypass with you. It’s an electronic toll system. Toll
charges will be automatically applied to that device as you pass from toll
booths. No need to pay via coins anywhere. It’s easy, fast and convenient.
Normally, they are active while taking car but it’s better to confirm.
4. Snacks
as per taste.
Since we were
travelling like 20 hours-1200 miles (2000kms) one way. We added lots of snacks
with us.
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| Nissan Rogue Intermediate SUV |
The most
exciting part of the recipe. We started from office around 3:30 and visited few
rental offices again to confirm that easy pass is active and if we can get a all
wheel drive instead of front wheel drive as those cars are better for long
journey and snow travels. Unfortunately both didn’t worked out and we had to
continue our journey without them. We stopped on the way just to fill
gas and coffee. Our first halt was at Chicago where we picked the fourth guy. Finally our expedition towards New York started.
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