City of circles – Day 1

After spending the morning with lazy wakeup and stone cold breakfast, we were eager to reach Jaipur. Train reached at 1 p.m. Again I had to walk to full platform to get Vesta. When I reached the luggage bogie (the brake van), my heart skipped by the sight. It was packed to the brim with…

First train ride – Day 0

There are no photos of this day, because the camera was hidden deep inside the luggage, and things were happening too fast or too slow, to take it out. I rode Vesta to Mumbai from Thane, for going to office. The difference between traffic of Mumbai and Pune is sharply noticeable. In Mumbai, almost everyone…

Prologue – Planning, preparation and surprises

“How about a really long ride, dear? We neither are growing any younger nor are the responsibilities becoming smaller.” “Alright. But where? Leh Ladakh is unaccessible in Jan-Feb. What else is good?” It was around in Nov 2009, that me and Nandinee, my wife, started to get an itch for a ride. We had recently…

Long weekend ride to Konkan – Day 3

Day 3: 04th Oct 2009 We started rolling at 9am, after having a simple breakfast at the hotel. Asked the owner about directions, bid them goodbye (the landlady said kindly “ride slowly brother”, really liked the treatment we got there). First stop was Murud. Murud is some 3-4 kms from Harnai, famous for it’s Mahalaxmi…

Long weekend ride to Konkan – Day 2

Day 2: 03rd Oct 2009 After finishing the work at mathh, we left at around 11.30am to catch the ferry from Bagmandla. The road is the same one that goes to Harihareshwar, except at one intersection, one has to take left, rather than to take right and end up in Harihareshwar. This left road is…

Long weekend ride to Konkan – Day 1

Thanks to Gandhijee, we had a long weekend last week. So planned a tour with wifey and Vesta (my Orange GS150), and rolled on at 2nd Oct 09. Total ride of the trip was 605kms on Sunday at 9pm, when we reached home back. The ride consisted of good roads, bad roads, imaginary roads and…