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| Posing at Death Valley NP |
I am back again with some late
posts and with the same reason. I always finish off the previous trips before
making a new trip, this is the same. I am planning something big and hence
thought of writing this one before. My Bachelor’s trip or I would say my last
bachelor trip was organized, where it should have been. It was none other than Wild
Wild Vegas. The trip was not planned to be a bachelor’s trip; it was started as
a reunion plan and then eventually turned into Bachelor’s trip. We started
planning as 4 people and soon, one guy dropped. It was due to that one person,
that it was planned in Vegas and he backed out. There are some people who just don’t
know how to understand what’s important. Our initial plan was to have the
reunion in Minnesota, the same place where we all met. Then it was shifted to
Vegas. There were 3 people in the plan-Khan Sab, Bhati bhai and me. Then after
few days, we got one more-Dani bhai. Until, last moment-we were 4 guys. We booked
flights-Spirit (TIP: I booked it on airport, which saved me around 30$, instead
of doing it online) and hotel (TIP; Bhati bhai had some account in Harrah’s,
hence it saved us some money) and then car-it became bit costly, but we got
hatchback-Awesome.
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| New Year Celebration |
I got married in Feb 2018 and we had
New Year’s long weekend, so it it was perfect time to plan the trip. At the
last moment, we got to know that Khan Sab has backed out but another friend came
into picture few days before trip, so only 3 people were remaining now. We started,
after finishing our jobs on Friday the 29th and reached the same
day. Picked up our car and then headed straight to Hotel. We were bit tired on that
day, so just arranged some supplies and said Good Night. Everyone knew that it
was a bachelor trip for me, but we got to know that it was for Bhati bhai as
well. His marriage was also fixed.
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| Hotels |
We planned to go for a road trip
on the first day of our trip. We visited Death Valley National Park.it was a
nice place with scenic lookouts and beautiful drives. It’s the hottest, driest
and lowest national park. It was given its forbidding name as a group was lost
here, which was also rescued later, but any way they gave this name. We stopped
by at many places to get the feel of the place such as Dantes View, Twenty mule
Canyon, Zabriskie Point, Furnace Creek, Badwater Basin and Permanent Springs. Our
car was going at 80 and I thought of opening the top which was really a bad
idea as it was about to blow out. (Tip: Never do that in a moving car). The
best location was badwater basin-it’s the lowest point in North America. Its 282
feet below sea level and often gets salts from surrounding basin making it
undrinkable and hence the name. It was lot for the day. So we just slept after
returning the car.
We didn’t plan to do much on the
next day as we wanted to see the fireworks and celebrate New Year in evening. So
we were just hanging around the hotels, casinos and on the streets. I am not
good at gambling, so I stayed away from it. I like the hotels, their
decoration, so we were going to each hotel to see and admire the New Year
festivity. Night time, we saw fireworks, which were ok. They should be planned
in a better way. We were standing in front of Ceaser’s Palace which had the
best fireworks. The 1st of 2018 was the last day of our Sin City so
we wanted to keep it soft. We exchanged pictures and Bhati bhai departed for
Flight as he had the earliest one. I and Dani wanted to check out the Freemont.
The street was just waking up when we visited there-around 3-4 PM. We saw some
Magicians and different type of people showing their creative abilities in
order to earn some money. That was all for Vegas, then we returned airport and
came back home. I reached bit late and luckily found a taxi waiting at the
station.
