Adi, Praveen, Krishna and Ravali..all excited about the trip.
subbi is scared that I'm driving! By the way, I drove all the way
Idedo google sponsored trip laa vundi... Vijay ni choodandi...paina google, lopala google...antha google mayam
driving at high speed...and guess what.. i slept only for 2 hours the previous night
Everybody looks excited.. and subbi is talking to *SOMEONE* on the phone as usual..
Pit stop... ppl wanted coffee.. and madhu wanted a photo.. :)
Drive to Duluth, empty roads make me happy!
Here is duluth, the city on the shores of Lake superior!
Had lunch at subway in Duluth
Scenic drive by by the lake superior
By this time, I fell asleep... But vijay and co. went to the dock to get a view of the stars...End of Day1 for me..
Started raining...so no stars..came back and look at this... vijay is on a mission :)
Here is our lodge... Bearskin lodge..And you can see the bear as well!
And here is the beautiful Bearskin lake... The lake looks like bear skin from the top and hence the name.
well..hard to leave the place...but had to...and even harder...had to clean the lodge.. krishna with his usual job....antlu tomadam :)
Near grand portage, canadian border
Hike to the water falls in Grand portage, Krishna gaadi poselu..
Here is the high falls... Atu canada..Itu America...Seriously!
Did anyone realize, this is the first photo with just 3 of us..
Oops..forgot to say, we had lunch in Grand Marais, before we went to Lutsen mountains
Here is Grand Marais, famous for the annual sailing competitions..
Here is our next stop... Lutsen Mountains.
Seriously we went on those things...no belts, nothing...it was a bit scary..
Thats me.. and the fall colors..
We went on the rope way to see the colors..
I won't tell anything about this...
Photo kosam..
Mind blowing view of the colors...
You can see the photos..But being there and seeing the whole strech of colors is an experience..
Yeah..you see that...normally crazy madhu is silently enjoying the colors..
We caught you... vijay in his typical pose.. he is not sleeping u guys..
Praveen slips on the log.. he slipped a lot of times after..
Lake superior...yeah, that's a lake...
Vijay rocks..
mana konda gaadu... pedda katte pattukoni...
Missing cricket!
Lake superior rocks as well!
This is an amazing view..
Seriously, this is private property..Only if I had the money ....
Here is the view again... There is a pebble beach here ...And some body bought it..
Gunflint trail is a hilly area with lots of lakes and forests..
Drive on the Gunflint trail
Didn't stay long in the lodge... The lake was calling us...
Here comes the talented photographer vijay and the hungry dude Adi...
Vijay testing the laws of physics, gravity, etc etc..
Oh by the way, another creative photo by Vijay on Day 1
Yeah...before Adi really eats some body, madhu started cooking...Yeah, in Minneapolis, the guests have to cook ;)
Had a nice bath in the hot tub.. It was so relaxing after the day long driving...
Inside the lodge..Its a 3-bedroom duplex house
Konda gaadu...vudayanne lechesaadu...camera toti bayalderaadu
Everyone was fresh in the morning...ready for the game..
yup..thats right..we played frisbee on kayaks....
Can't stop taking pcitures of the lake
I know.....
Another view of the lodge
Group photo at the lodge before we left...Wait the trip is not over yet...
Another group photo.. this is on the gunflint trail by the way..
Here is a first glimpse of the fall colors on the way back... Those are real colors... Not picasa..
jumping dudes..
See I told you...Praveen slipping again...this time taking 2 others along...
Well that is lake superior and we drove all the way along the lake...Duluth is on the left bottom of the picture and Grand Portage is on the top right...
Another breathtaking view of the lake superior...This is close to canada..
The photo should explain it.. I couldn't stop enjoying the view.
Well.. a nice view..and what else to do ? pose for a photo...
Another photo ? Sure!
The falls used to look like that...at its best..
Four of us now..
Leading the ppl with a stick..
on the way to the waterfall..
konda gaadu..chettu motham oopesaadu..
Ikkada nunchi okkakkaru photography talent antaa choopinchaaru
Adi
Closeup of the falls..
Ravali posing with the falls..
Krishna trying Matrix in the air...
Aa naluguru...Aaaart photo.
Smiling dude..
Vijay defying gravity!
Krishna was trying push ups in the air..
This is the how we reach the top of the mountain from where we slide..really!
Another artistic photo..this time Adi showing his expertise..and Vijay didn't have to try hard :)
This is the slide I was talking about... slide from the top of the mountain...
Our last stop before we went back...Lighthouse at splitrock
Ravali, Praveen and Vijay with the light house
Adi relaxing.. See the strip connecting the right side to the island on the left...
Crossed the strip...believe me...water was ice cold already and the rocks were slippery...
Krishna and Subbi reached there first..
Finally, everybody made to the other end... other than Vijay and Adi... And guess what, both the cameras were with them :(
That's why its called split rock..
Came back again.. and here is a new experiment by Vijay..
You can see..
Final view at the light house and Lake superior...Then stopped at Duluth for coffee and came home... I drove crazy.. almost went 95mph at times... (yeah that's miles per hour)..
