they say the child imbibes from the parents'....the reverse can be so true!
for the last 2 yrs my folks hve been zigzagging all across the country....now that they r unburdened of the excess luggage of m'self n my sis (:-))....but then i guess the stories of my excursion provided them the boost for their next item on the agenda...the euro trip!!
if it had come by in a normal-seen everyday-guided tour kinda way....i had no issues whatsoever! but no...they banished the thought of the guided tour...bought themselves a lonely planet guide...got talkin to their friends who had been to europe better...charted their own 'flexible' itinerary....n got all ready to fly off!!!
imagine me....sitting 1000 of miles away...how wud i react when they say..."we cud go to berlin...or maybe go first to vienna...and then maybe take a nite train to berlin - if we get a reservation - or wil take a hotel in vienna"...jesus christ - this aint your backyard!! get a fixed itinerary!! but no...my parents after all...hve to stubbornly sustain that streak of adventurism!!
then started my trans-continental calls to all my friend-base/ acquaintance base in europe...calling ppl...trying to put those places in the folks' itinarary...tryin to make my mates meet them at various places...tryin to make them stay at their places...spking at my 2 Am-3 Am...spkin to them mine 12 pm/6 am...time zones of all the major cities of europe at my fingertips!
so at last they flew...got one of me mates to meet them at first base at frankfurt-heidelberg itself...still cant totally calm the nervous wreck that i had become and wont to remain so till they land back in Cal again!
just before i wrote this, i had placed a call to them to check on them...they were supposed to be at lucerne today. this is how the gist of the call went...mom took the call...
me: hello mom...how are ya? where are u guys?
for the last 2 yrs my folks hve been zigzagging all across the country....now that they r unburdened of the excess luggage of m'self n my sis (:-))....but then i guess the stories of my excursion provided them the boost for their next item on the agenda...the euro trip!!
if it had come by in a normal-seen everyday-guided tour kinda way....i had no issues whatsoever! but no...they banished the thought of the guided tour...bought themselves a lonely planet guide...got talkin to their friends who had been to europe better...charted their own 'flexible' itinerary....n got all ready to fly off!!!
imagine me....sitting 1000 of miles away...how wud i react when they say..."we cud go to berlin...or maybe go first to vienna...and then maybe take a nite train to berlin - if we get a reservation - or wil take a hotel in vienna"...jesus christ - this aint your backyard!! get a fixed itinerary!! but no...my parents after all...hve to stubbornly sustain that streak of adventurism!!
then started my trans-continental calls to all my friend-base/ acquaintance base in europe...calling ppl...trying to put those places in the folks' itinarary...tryin to make my mates meet them at various places...tryin to make them stay at their places...spking at my 2 Am-3 Am...spkin to them mine 12 pm/6 am...time zones of all the major cities of europe at my fingertips!
so at last they flew...got one of me mates to meet them at first base at frankfurt-heidelberg itself...still cant totally calm the nervous wreck that i had become and wont to remain so till they land back in Cal again!
just before i wrote this, i had placed a call to them to check on them...they were supposed to be at lucerne today. this is how the gist of the call went...mom took the call...
me: hello mom...how are ya? where are u guys?
mom: hellooo beta...we're all good. me and ur dad are on the top of mt. titlis rite now...
me: wat?! top of where?! u were supposed to be at lucerne lake today?!
mom: been there...seen that & left lucerne for mt. titlis...and now we're 10000 ffet high up on top of it...the temp is arnd -5/6 degrees i think..
me: (totally speechless n doubly concerned n literally shouting) negative temperature?!?!? u guys hve enuff warm clothes i hope...u not feeling cold or nething...hve some coffee...glug some brandy....
mom: aare relax beta...we're all cool...had some special swiss coffee as soon as we reached the top...and me & ur dad just finished a game of throwing snowballs at each other! dont worry...we're fine!
a smile broke across my face at hearing this. atta boy...thats my folks!
guess i dont need 2 b so concerned abt them...they are managing just fine! which doesnt mean at all that i'm not damn tensed rite now wondering whether they went down by the ski lift...or the cable car....or did they try something else...or....
jeez...stop it...stop it....let them enjoy themselves! they will be fine.let them go on travelling and having fun....and i will try and keep sending my mates as chaperones with them just like i had sent my mates in heidelberg...in zurich and are setting some up in belgium, paris, scotland n london!! :-)
hve a gr8 time folks....travel safe n come back soon...ppl back home are missin u already! :-)
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