Friday, May 4, 2007

December 30, 2006: The last lap. Pune to Bangalore 887 kms

Please read from the beginning, the first post onwards. This is a complete journey which took me from Gurgaon to Bangalore and this is the last lap. Click here to go to the post.

The only thing that I knew about this drive was to make it before dusk as driving through the day is tiring and then to take on the night traffic and lights takes its toll. So 6:00 AM was the trip start time. We both decided to stop on for leak breaks and also for food pick stuff which we could eat while driving...

The early morning sun rise was amazing. A new day was dawning in our lives, this was also a new chapter in what we could be doing. A mix of good and bad roads and a stopover at Hubli for a quick bite we ripped on homewards.

Enter Bangalore, a third coming for me, a second for wifey sharp 5:30 PM. 11 and 1/2 hours, not bad! But then the next three hours were spent in wading through traffic to reach Koramangla where we were staying till we moved to our new home.

We made it. It was one heck of a ride. At times I often recall an acquaintance had made a passing comment to me that I was "fantasizing" when I spoke about a ride to Delhi from Chennai... not done in the real world.

Wanted to tell him this was for real. And real in a much grander fashion. People are strange. They disbelieve the real ones and believe the grand liars! On that note I end this trip story. There are many more to come. Of course not in a chronological order.

1 comment:

Sandip Kumar said...

Exciting. was amazed reading through - you're the real roadie!! Inspiring ;)