Road Trip
I was sitting on the sands at Juhu beach and resolved to start making entries in my blog again. I enjoyed the time I spent typing in my blog so why stop?
I spent last week end at Ahmedabad. A stays there and I was to go check out the new flat he is buying. I wanted to go on a long drive and the 10 hour journey sounded interesting to me. We decided to drive down from Mumbai on Friday evening. Things worked out for me in office and I managed to leave home for A'bad at 5' in the evening.
Since I was the keen one, my bro let me drive the entire stretch from Marol to Surat for 5 hours. It was fine till darkness set in but after that it was a real pain. Anyways, we then stopped for dinner and then he started driving. By then it was quite late and both of us made every effort to keep each other wide awake. Late at night, when we were on the Expressway between Baroda and A'bad, we even attempted to keep other wavering drivers awake when we saw them go awry at high speeds. By this time, both of us were very clear that on our return we will aim for an early return. Of course, we must first reach our destination.
We did reach early the next morning after a night spent driving and taking "chai breaks" other than the one long break for dinner. At our last halt before we entered A'bad, we decided that on our return we were going to get on the road before 2 in the afternoon and reach home by 12. No late driving again for us. The adventure taught us a few things about God given light vis a vis human inventions like a car's head light. There is just no comparison.
Rest assured, I have already planned my next long road drive but I intend to do it all in the day. I know someone who has driven all across India and he is very clear that he will only drive from 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Sensible guy. It makes a load of sense to me.
My return trip back from A'bad was fine. We left early and I drove another 250 Kilometers. Some of it in the dark again but the effort of driving in the night was quite a bit compared to the sheer fun of driving in the day.
I spent last week end at Ahmedabad. A stays there and I was to go check out the new flat he is buying. I wanted to go on a long drive and the 10 hour journey sounded interesting to me. We decided to drive down from Mumbai on Friday evening. Things worked out for me in office and I managed to leave home for A'bad at 5' in the evening.
Since I was the keen one, my bro let me drive the entire stretch from Marol to Surat for 5 hours. It was fine till darkness set in but after that it was a real pain. Anyways, we then stopped for dinner and then he started driving. By then it was quite late and both of us made every effort to keep each other wide awake. Late at night, when we were on the Expressway between Baroda and A'bad, we even attempted to keep other wavering drivers awake when we saw them go awry at high speeds. By this time, both of us were very clear that on our return we will aim for an early return. Of course, we must first reach our destination.
We did reach early the next morning after a night spent driving and taking "chai breaks" other than the one long break for dinner. At our last halt before we entered A'bad, we decided that on our return we were going to get on the road before 2 in the afternoon and reach home by 12. No late driving again for us. The adventure taught us a few things about God given light vis a vis human inventions like a car's head light. There is just no comparison.
Rest assured, I have already planned my next long road drive but I intend to do it all in the day. I know someone who has driven all across India and he is very clear that he will only drive from 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Sensible guy. It makes a load of sense to me.
My return trip back from A'bad was fine. We left early and I drove another 250 Kilometers. Some of it in the dark again but the effort of driving in the night was quite a bit compared to the sheer fun of driving in the day.
posted by Bohemia at Monday, January 01, 2007
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