Thursday, November 15, 2007

Road Trip - Jaipur to Pune


Mom - If you come, i wont talk to you
Papa - Arpan ko bola hai ki teri petrol tank mein chini daal de
bhatti - ch*tiya
sonali - you have gone crazy
deepak - abe tu nahin jaa raha hai ... bas!!!
arpan - aapni bike aur xbox mera :P
nishant - g@nd mein kidha hai kya.. but mast trip hogi sir
rohit (nishant's frnd) - abe tu maal le ke jaa raha hai kya ?
roadshakers - Just keep it cool n u'll make it... its electra na... no problem man...



Day 1:



Pune to mumbai : drove cooly , stopping at lonvala n reaching vashi in just 4 hrs.. no problem at all, but vashi was jam packed with traffic... humid and traffic was irritating me,.. so i planned to stop at nishant's place.

I met with a small accident, luckily the saddle bags saved us from major damage, only thing was that my right side mirror broke off and i had to drive my journey without a right mirror.

Day 2:



Started at 5.30am and i was bit worried that if my clutch oil level is ok coz of the last night accident with resulted in a spill. This caused a delay in my trip as i had to stop to enquire about clutch oils at many petrol pump n shops. Finally i got it checked at some place and resumed my roadtrip.
It was going fine.. i had to take breaks in between coz of my back pain. It started raining and that too heavily. it got me delay by roughly 45 mins. Lunch time and again it startd to rain like hell... delay again 1hr, finally i decided to move and reach baroda and reached baroda after 4 hrs of drive...
Time 8.30 pm... reached baroda , had my dinner, booked a room. and slept at 1

Total distance covered :roughly 500 kms


Day 3:



Next day woke up at 8, left baroda at 10. Relaxed and fresh, drove like mad, this time i took lesser stops and tried to cover more distance , but the roads were pathetic.. it took me 5 hours to cover arnd 200 kms... after my lunch, i reached shamlaji and frm there the road to udaipur was mind blowing, amzaing to drive and i managed to cover 140 kms in under 2.30 hours. Night halt at udaipur as someppl told me that not to go beyond udaipur if you get late.

I finally got my rear view mirror changed at udaipur and had dal-bati there.

Distance covered 350 kms

Day 4:


Start from udaipur: 8.45 am
The drive from udaipur to ajmer was not as great as what i had experienced while reaching udaipur, but the traffic was less. It was a one way lane(both side) , plus a bit uphill and downhill till around 50-60 kms. fewer halts as before, i guess my body was getting used to the ride, no more back pains... i could finally drive for 2 hrs nonstop. I was a bit worried that my engine doesnt overheat. Lunch time 70 kms before ajmer. After ajmer, it was kishangard where the express way would start.
I was waiting for the expressway to begin...

Finally i was on expressway and jaipur was just 110 kms frm there. Home finally.... Was driving at 80kms....wanted to reach and give my parents a suprise :)
Reached jaipur and home at 7. mom was shocked to see me., n when she asked me hw did i come , then she was like... i am not talking to u,
papa was suprised to hear my voice too :P


Distance covered: 450 kms



Woo-hoo i reached jaipur, just 1 hour after Arpan arrived(on a plane). Mom and dad were shocked to see me first and Arpan got all the beatings for not telling them about my crazy plan :D


But thankfully, nothing went wrong in the whole trip. Thank god for it :)


Looking for a next trip like this, but next time, its gonna be Himalayas'