12. Day 9: Beautiful Aspen, CO

Please, please visit this place if you have not been here yet.

It's just beautiful.

Look at the pictures captured with iPhone from a moving car and you decide.

Sky in pond

Following ones are not captured from moving car as u can see.

My mean machine

The famous Maroon Bells

Snowmass village near Aspen is like an welcoming European town

Funny story - On our way to rafting we saw this police car. 

A gentleman from Illinois said, "this cop is very hard working, I am seeing this car here for last 2 days." 

The driver told us that the car is broken and doesn't even have engine. It is kept at that same place  for months now, so tourists don't speed up in this section.

That's really an innovative way of reducing car speeds at tourist spots!

11. Day 8: To colorful Colorado

Do you remember childhood drawing with backdrop of mountains, river flowing through the village and sun setting between the mountains?

I think we saw it today on our way to Aspen, Colorado. 

It is a small peach town with some wineries named Palisade.

It's beautiful!

Will upload the pictures from DSLR later.

This is a cool state welcome sign till now.

Excited for tomorrow's white water river rafting level 4 and 5. 

10. Day 7: Walking the dirty narrows in Zion

Driving narrow roads traversing through the huge canyons was the best part of the day.

Yeah we waked the dirty Zion Narrows!

Hiking through the water running in between canyon narrows is a unique experience but the water was dirty and sorry to say but it gets boring after a while.

Clichè photo! 

Balancing act

I love this one. (Just after crossing the Zion National Park visitor center)

Note:

Strongly recommend trying airbnb whenever you travel. Saves some money without compromising on comfort.

9. Day 6: Grand Canyon North Rim

We decided to see North Rim of the Grand Canyons and avoid South rim, just to take daredevil selfies and pictures on the edges of the rim.

Then we covered Horse Shoe Bend in Page, AZ on our way back.

8. Day 5: Thank you Vegas

This is my first time walking to the cashier in Casinos to collect money and not to ATM machines to withdraw. 

I think I am getting better at roulette or was just lucky, 3 times...

Winnings : $90, $60 and $200

Net : $260

Casinos paying for gas on your road trip not bad right !

Left Vegas to reach Santa Clara, UT where we booked a place on AirBnB for the first time. It is just 50min from Zion National park and 3hrs from Grand Canyon.

Visited Hoover dam on the way.

We have decided to capture all possible state welcome signs on our way, so here are some:

Grand Canyon North Rim tomorrow....

7. Day 4: What happens in..........

The best part of being in Vegas for me is playing roulette on strip at night and coming out of clubs in morning lights. Sleeping through the day just to repeat last night.

This is probably the only picture on my phone 

Ohh wait I think I have another one: don't know where and where though !

6. Day 3: To Sin City,,,

Driving from San Francisco to Sin city Las Vegas. Whole day of driving, awesome scenery (especially a long stretch of wind mills on hills) and Harshad got to drive 😝

Completed first 1000 miles of the trip - 8 more to go. We are confident that we can do it.

Stayed at Stratosphere: Nice place to stay just a bit far from the strip

View of the strip from Stratosphere tower: it was far better than this picture 

Bartender at Cosmopolitan, Aria served Green tea whisky shots and that started one hell of a crazy night of drinking, gambling and ..... in the Sin city.

Rest you all know

5. Day 2 - Loved the city of Golden Gate... again

I have been to San Francisco many times, but just can't get enough of this city - crooked streets, breath taking view of Golden Gate from Battery Spencer, awesome architecture and "touristy" Pier 39.

Lomabart street looks funny in navigation: 

4. Day 1 - Pacific Coast Highway moods

Started from LA to San Francisco on Pacific Coast Highway with stops in Santa Barbara, Big Sur and Bixby bridge. 

Driving sea side was fun for first 200 miles then it got monotonous and boring. But testing the BMW driving dynamics was fun. Impressed I must say! 

Anyways Here are some of the memories to share with you: 

Started from LA:

Santa Barbara: you must be expecting a pier or beach picture but in my defense the car was very clean and classic 

Harshad helping some strangers take a family picture at Bixby bridge:

Selfie stick really has some utility quotient:

What better can you expect from friends when they bring crab curry for dinner and join for beer.

Thanks Uday, Vandita, Rohan, Kedar, Shweta, Nikhil and Sayali.

3. A day before it all starts..

Will start the trip with LA to San Francisco on Pacific Coast Highway tomorrow and once we commit to this trip there is no turning back.

So scared a bit!

Just taking it light today and visiting good old LA landmark Hollywood Sign and Celebrity homes in Beverly Hills and Hollywood Hills.

The worst thing is when you will be on a trip and your roommate agrees to shift your stuff to the new place... Well I meant  worst for him 😝

Will be spending all afternoon packing my stuff before I leave tomorrow morning.

Take care people will keep you posted.

2. Welcome to America my friend

Today is my first day as an unemployed graduate. And I am really annoyed!

The problem with working for a 9-5 job for a while is that, it gets you into the habit of waking up early even when you don't have to go to office. 

Woke up at 7 am today..... damn biological clock/habits/crappp whatever we call that. 

Anyway excited to welcome and receive my bro, buddy and accomplice to begin this crazy trip which we call 'The Great American Road Trip Adventure'.

Ok here he is:

1. Shit gets real!!

I It all started when I told my best friend Harshad who lives in India, that I will be on vacation for two months starting 14th July. Within weeks he applied for US VISA and this insane 9000 mile road trip  circling US got really serious!
First thing I did was this:

Excited, anxious, scared !!

Then I did the next important thing, bought myself a little mean transformer machine ride for trip:
Meet Lailaaa!

Harshad lands in Los Angeles, CA on 15th July and this great insane cross country adventure road trip scheduled to start from 18th July 2015.
Wish us good luck and keep cheering us with your comments and shares.

Will post the trip itinerary once we start the trip on Saturday, till then have fun 😊