Leavenworth is some 120 miles from Seattle. It is a German style village; they call these kinds of villages as Bavarian Village. So now we are going to take a trip to this village on a Sunny Saturday. You plan to start the drive by 8:15A.M and start at 9:15A.M. We are always on the dot! You swiftly catch up the navigator seat so that you have a control over travel direction and playing songs. Start with Annanoda pattu. The sceneries are ordinary till you merge with route U.S-2.After this, starts the country drive. The full area is sanctified by Mother Nature. One side of the road is filled with greenish trees and the other side you have a rail track (song in the player - Mottu ondru – Kushi)(pics here…). After few miles the trees are replaced by mountains and the rail track scene is replaced by a small river(pics here…). And you start imagining yourself as a hero and switch to romantic songs (ennavale adi ennavale type). After an hour or so you stop for a small tea break and your veins get lot fresher. Few minutes from there you see a good view point of the river and relax for a mini photo session. One more hour of drive and you reach Leavenworth. The entrance greets you with archetypal German buildings. You should be hungry by now. You reach information centre and get the necessary info, obviously restaurant details first. It’ll not be that good if you visit a German style village and didn’t try out German food. King Ludwig’s serves you lip smacking German/Hungarian food. I’ll write up a separate post about the food later. You come out and start exploring the village(pics here…). All buildings are designed in European style. That's what they say, I have never visited Europe. Looks like it is true, there is definite difference in the way the shops and houses are built, than the other places I visited in Seattle. Spend most of time in walking through the streets and posing for photos. Drop-in few shops and look for the any souvenir collections. You find few good T-shirts and you robotically recollect the much important 43rd table. Typical Indian mind set you see. Still swallow the hard-pill and buy it as a commemoration of the trip. Now it starts raining. You should do something passionate at this time. You spot an ice-cream shop. Try out Maple nut cone and it sucks. No other go you have to eat. Enjoy the climate and say goodbye to the place with reminiscences. After two hour drive reached Mayuri for a special hot chai and some good desi faces. This is the first trip in which I saw only one desi couple, wondering where have been the rest.