Monday, June 4, 2012

Ten'Zion' Drive!!

On that evening, we started driving from Vegas, Hoover Dam towards Antelope Canyons. Slowly it started getting darker and we were driving on 75 Mph road. After a while we passed through a Board saying "**** National Forest" and at that time we have not cared too much about that. couples of miles later, we encountered a forest toll but there was no one at the counter. The speed board says 15 Mph. After driving for 10-15 miles,  we realized that we were the only ones driving on that route. There was no trace of a car visible any near not even from the opposite side. It was full of Deep hair pin bends and it was too dark out side. on one side of the route there was a steep mountain valley with out any fence and one small mistake could make a car fall into that. After a while, we saw a car parked on the side and there was no one in the car and after a mile, we saw another car parked on the other side and one of my friend said, it was the same car we have seen earlier...

   Then started ten'Zion'. No one is showing feelings outside, I don't know about others but I was feeling lil bit tensed. We thought about a movie "Wrong Turn". Adding to that scareness, we approached a big tunnel which was like 5 miles long which is totally dark. My friend was switching off lights and driving for fun. Our conversations included "What if the car stops in middle of the tunnel? What if some one asks for lift in the middle of the forest? We were 4 what if a couple is driving in that route? goes on..." Finally tunnel ends and we have seen couple of cars from opposite side which was relaxing. We were 1968 ft height from ground level and slowly the speed boards started showing increased speed and the approx 40 miles of "Zion National Forest" came to end as we reached the toll. This drive became the most memorable moment and ranked top in the trip.

I was writing this blog after a gap of 18 months prooves that how remarkable those moments were -

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