1000Km Road trip with Gen-X, Gen-Z, Gen-Alpha and Millennial in i10

     With the title itself, one might have imagined how it would be if we have Gen-X, Millennials ,Gen-Z's and Gen Alpha in one car going for a week Road trip. Highly Scary!!!! Similar feeling I had, when I was getting prepared to start 1000Km Road trip with my mom (Gen-X), Son (Gen-Z) and Daughter (Gen-Alpha) and myself (Millennial). One side highly elated and on the other side, I doubting my patience levels. This post I want to share with you my experience of traveling with three generations.

     In my life no daring step starts without Abhilash's motivation. Its Dec 23rd 2021, packed the lunch with regular travel menu of Tomato rice, Chapathi, Groundnut powder and Potato fry. Bharan got his regular dental check for Brackets and then we started around 11:30AM from Hosur. Filled the fuel of full tank, Bharan being only male in the car gave him the front seat and two important ladies of my life mom and Nithila in the back and me being the driver. 

    Crossed Tamil Nadu Border with a proud that I am going to lead the trip. Entered Bangalore, the elevation bridge is always a tempting spot to rise the speed, forgetting that our police mama's will be waiting in the right spot to stop us. As expected and unexpected, the police stopped me for exceeding the speed and asked for license. Am such a daring a lady, without even keeping license with me I started my road trip. He asked for Rs 2000 and negotiated saying that I would pay Rs1000. thinking that it is a Drishti pooja, we started our journey again. I got bombarded with questions, suggestions from all these generations at a time. I asked everyone to keep quite till we cross Bangalore. Of-course everyone resumed speaking after 5mins. It took 1.5hrs to cross the city alone. Pathetic roads and one ways. Once we hit the Hyderabad Highway, It was amazing. The same day we also crossed Karnataka border and entered my birth state Andhra Pradesh. We reached Anantapur around 5:00PM. As usual Sudha aunty and uncle were waiting for us with lot of snacks. This is how our culture to show affection in terms of food that is served.

  

  After the sumptuous snacks and dinner, we went to deep sleep. Planned to start next day to Kurnool and attend Darsh Wedding. Next day Aunty was kind enough to pack upma for breakfast. This trip though the road is good, the weather was soo hot, sunny and has shown the real face of Rayalaseema. Our presence in the wedding was pleasant surprise to aunty, uncle, Gowthami and especially to Darsh. Received warm welcome from them. Bharan being Gen Z, he was comfortable with Virtual crowd, but not with physical crowd. Mom being Gen-X wants to speak with lot of people and Gen- Alpha not still able to understand whats happening. Me being Millennial trying to balance all. After the wedding, we started back to Anantapur. Bharan got his wish fulfilled with our stop in cafe day. So is Nithila and Mom got her wish fulfilled of visiting ISKCON. Back to Aunty's house in Anantapur for rest. Aunty being staunch follower of ISKCON, was able to receive lots and lots of information related to Krishna consciousness. Understood that in Kali yuga, easy way to get aligned with paramatma is Bhakthi yoga, however I have a deep rooted interest to understand and experience all my chakras energy, so I am intended to follow Kriya Yoga and Gnana Yoga though it takes very long time. Wish for have conviction towards that.

    

    

After bidding farewell to Sudha aunty and uncle in Anantapur, we started our journey to Madanapalle. In between, I had a wish to visit our cousin's house and temple at Kadiri. But with all this long journey which was mentally challenging because of difference in perspectives, difference in generations, decided to reach Madanapalle and take rest. Today being Christmas day wished Swarna aunty and family. I was overjoyed to meet Nihal family. I used to carry Nihal and Play with him when he was a baby and I was very happy to see Nihal with his baby girl. Glad to meet his wife Ann, a very amicable girl. After spending a day in Madanapalle, we returned to Hosur. Thus completing our whole trip.