1st Long Weekend

Now a days, a term known as Long Weekend has become quite famous-thanks to our IT culture. It is defined as any weekend greater than 2 days, even if it’s just 3 days. I witnessed one of such in recent days and since it was the 1^st long weekend of US for me, I was quite excited. It came in the form of Memorial Day Holiday on Monday May 25. I planned a road trip which included 5 friends, 4days, 3000 miles, 2 National Parks and 1 premium SUV and lots of nashta(Snacks).

Drive to Glacier

We started on Friday May 23 after completing our office work towards Montana-Glacier National Park in our car-Chevrolet Tahoe. We had 5 guys and among them 4 drivers, all are supposed to drive but when I took the first look, it was looking like a goddamn truck. I was doubting myself (Caution: Never ever doubt yourself, man has reached Moon so definitely Sky is not the limit) whether I’ll be able to drive it, but after some time, I was driving it as if I have driven it from months. In US, driving is fun. Note that you will not enjoy much in the national park but the drive to the park is awesome, you will be driving through a road called as “going to the Sun road” and its worth to drive there. So drive slowly and enjoy the view, they are strict about speed limits and animals can come on the road anytime so be careful and enjoy the ride.

Truck

We reached Glacier National Park next morning and even after I said multiple times that we should roam around park first and then hit the hotel, people with me wanted to check out hotel first just to get refresh which we can do in any restaurant/rest area. Just to save time and spend it in the park instead of hotel. Unfortunately or fortunately when we reached hotel, it was closed so we got fresh in a restaurant had kind of ok Lunch and started exploring Glacier National Park. 

The Group

Most of the park was closed except the Avalanche trail. The trail was supposed to be small but it was bit long. It took around 30mins to reach the end, but in the end it was worth the efforts. There was a large glacier with small lake and a great picturesque view. We clicked lot of pics there and then headed back. Last of course not the least, I met 2 girls on the way down and got to know that they were Indian, although at first look no one can identify that they are Indians. I was surprised to know that. One was Punjabi another Gujju. It was nice to meet someone from our region in an unknown area. Our 15 mins talk was so intense that we became good friends, they say we make friends everywhere. I had say that’s true. Next station was subway followed by hotel.