UnPlanned Trip!

Sometimes, I want to do trips without planning. I have done so many road trips in US (and most of them planned), these days I feel like just going to a new place and not plan anything and explore the place.

So this time for Labor Day long weekend, till Friday night - I did not plan anything. I just said to myself "not to plan". People who know me, would say that this is totally opposite to my nature where I plan most of the things so meticulously.

So what did I do? Only thing that I had done till Friday night was to make sure that I have a car rental which is what I need if I have to go any where outside and second thing was to pick a place!!

One of my colleague had gone to this place "Glen State Park" before couple of weeks and he said that its really beautiful. So as per his suggestion, I had decided on this place on Friday.

That's it....On Saturday, we just put the address of one hotel in the GPS and there we go! We started our journey without knowing what to do at our destination. Isn't that a different feeling?
Almost all of the time, you know what you are going to do or you somewhat know what to do at your destination when you are going on a trip. Believe me, you are so much free on your mind when you have no thoughts running in your mind of "things to do". This is a very nice feeling to have.

We got a room in one of the hotels in a small town of "Geneva". Geneva was nice little town with a big "Seneca Lake". Next day, we started our drive towards actual State Park. After reaching there, we explored the small town of "Watkins Glen" and gathered some information from the visitor's center about the activities to do. Later we visited the state park. It was a small hike of 1.5 miles. There was a beautiful gorge in the park with lots of small water falls.

In the evening, we headed to another small town where we played "Mini Golf". This is a fun sport. I enjoyed it even more since the place was in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing in the 10-20 miles radius of this place. It was a small ice cream parlor and the mini golf !! What an amazing feeling!

After that we had dinner at another small town (Corning) at "Thali of India". The girl who was serving us was very innocent and cute. :-)

After that we headed back home!!

All in all "UnPlanned Trip" turned out very nice!