“My First Mini lonely travel in US”..Blendon woods Metro Park

I was reading a book last week which said “Do things which give you pleasure and don’t ignore the things which give happiness for the sake of others”... It’s a magical quote. Most of the time I avoid doing things which I like mainly due to, either I am scared to do it or I feel something like “Will People look me different if I do this”...But life looked awesome when I scraped out my fear and people perception towards me…

Now, I am in business trip to Columbus. When I travel to new places, i like to explorer new places and try to make the weekends occupied by going to new places and meet different people...After check in to hotel, I took few brochures that was lying in the reception area and sorted out the places where I can roam either by walking from hotel or using the shuttle provided by hotel. Few metro parks were located nearby but it’s all are more than 5 miles away and the hotel shuttle drops only in 5 miles radius. In Some Metro events there were program events for photography and Bird hike... I surfed the web regarding the metro park conducts bird hike and finalized Blendon woods Metro Park is my travel destination this weekend. Hotel sometimes screw us by telling we have rule that we can drop hotel guests only in 5 mile radius and after that not even .1 mile is acceptable, this is what happened when I asked for a drop to Blendon woods Metro Park.. “My First Mini lonely travel in US”… I haven’t taken their word in a negative way instead I took it in positive way and it gave me a different idea “Search a place near Blendon woods which is exactly 5 miles from hotel” in Google maps I found Christ fellowship church is the suitable place to drop me and from there the Blendon Woods is 0.5 miles away which I can walk…

Sunday 21^st 2014 8:30 AM, I packed my camera bag and to be on safer side packed some fruits , breads as I don’t know how far I need to walk or trek and  not sure whether any restaurant will be available or not.. Boarded the shuttle and the vehicle moved towards the Christ fellowship church, when the shuttle reaches the destination 8:45 AM the board at the entrance said --> Sunday Opening time is 10:30 AM.. A smile on my face and on the another end, I don’t know whether the driver will drop me to Blendon wood metro park as the church was closed.. Without hesitation asked the guy whether the he can drop me, he said yes and moved towards the blendon woods... If I was like before , I would haven’t asked him and end up in going to hotel back “Thanks to the book”…

After entering the Park , the trees on the sides of the road looked awesome and started to take snaps.. The driver dropped me at the reception area and went back to hotel.. I saw a Kid playing in the play area and asked his dad where the nature center is. 

He pointed me the direction to the Nature center where the Bird hike programming going to be held and by then I reached the nature center by walk, the team went inside the woods… I took the map of the park and started to roam in the middle of the woods... Beautiful Flowers, Beautiful weather, awesome music by Birds... It was fantastic... I reached a pond where I spotted few king fisher, Ducks and Deer... Through the binocular which was placed there, I was able to clearly view the nature… 

When I was exploring the nature, I saw a Kid and his father too enjoying the beauty of nature. I introduced myself to them and had a friendly talk... Few minutes passed by and the father of the Kid took me to the place whether I can spot different birds... After reaching the place, I saw beautiful birds flying and eating grains... I borrowed a binocular from the park supervisor and enjoyed the birds beauty “It was awesomeeeeee experience”…. In the desk nearby, the biography of birds was there... I read it for some time and started to move towards the Church for the shuttle guy to pick me up… I was the only person in the road walking, I am sure people will look me like alien but I am not worried... Plugged the earphone and started to listen to awesome song “Naan sonnadhum Malai vanthucha”...

1. What if I hesitated to ask the driver to drop me to the Blendon Woods, Do you think I would have enjoyed the beauty of nature
2. What if I would have thought, No walks in US road why I should?
3. What if I hesitated to ask the Park supervisor for a binocular? “I would haven’t enjoyed the awesome experience.

Scrap the fear and enjoy the Life.