Tuesday, July 08, 2003

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| | White Water Rafting.

This weekend, i had been to charlotte,NC. Mangesh (one of my best buddies is doing his MS in Comp Science there). When i left for NC, i thought i would just go, meet him and come back. This trip was far from that. Has to go down as one of the best outdoor trips i have ever had. We went camping, trekking and white water rafting in the Nantahala river,Smokey mountains.

My idea of partying and being with friends was listening to good music and dancing, i never thought outdoors would be so much fun. Never been to a camping trip before this, it was a totally different experience all together. We were a group of 18 ppl when we left for the trip from Charlotte, i knew only 4 of them. By the time we headed back home, i had made 14 new friends. Amol,Shishir,Rohit,Namit - just to name a few.

We played soccer, basketball, volleyball; had a barbeque in the open, lit a bonfire, and created so much havoc that we were nearly thrown out of the camping grounds :). We even tried to go trekking at 2 am,with one torch to guide us-That we were highly unsuccessful is a different story.

White water rafting was an out of the world experience. An 8.5 mile strech of flowing white water, with rocks all around, we conquered the Nantahala river in about 3 hours. For all those who havent done this before - I recommend it. The fact that u are on ur own in the flowing water, with only ur paddle for support, this can be one tricky thing to do.

Another weekend well spent, this one - was my date with "Mother Nature". Just made me realise that there is a whole big exciting world out there - if u are game, to go out and explore. JaI. | 12:44 AM