Very nice first person narration, good pics, & that hand-scribbled note. Very different & refreshing.

Looking forward to reading more about the places visited in & around Nashik.
I had been there a few months ago, & did visit Sula Vineyards too. Unfortunately the crushing season has just got over a week before my visit.

yep, that's the one. Made some changes to the original plan as per your suggestion.

Good work Vyom. Keep up the momentum.

I really like the 1st hand narration-fluidic overtaking, signaling&yes, sunrise all are feelings only we can truly understand. Leave the rest of the world behind, ride on!

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Ya trying to, was riding yester night too, couldn't add

Thanks you,

Thank you
Will try to update by tonight

Ride to X Place - The Story - Meeting Someone

Everytime you embark on a journey, there is that one single impulse behind it, which has pushed the thought, the idea, the craving into reality. I was no different to it. The impulse that pushed me, was certain introduction to a little girl, who via via relations turns out to be sweet lil relative. It was her craze to go on for a ride, that made me think, "ohk why not give her a ride too!!!"
All this was giving me goosebumps now when I was asked to give her a call, and let her know that we were 70 kms from Nashik.
This was our second stop of the day, at 7:10 am. As customary it is, we leaked bladders empty, then had water and finally "Chocolates". Ohh! I so much love this part of ride, whenever you stop, you get a chocolate and noone stops you from having chocolate. This time I grabbed a 'Snickers' from Akshat
Then some photo time...


Now since we had made it to this point sooner than we expected, we decided we will have quick breakfast in Nashik and then head on to Saputara and then...ummm it was planned till here only. The only uncertain point was whether the "Lil relative" was going to join us or not, depending on which we will have to decide on our route. So just to know, we checked the address she gave us and the nicest coincidence - she lived on the route we will have to take for Saputara i.e Dindoli Road.
Hence we started again, and well the roads and the winds that treated us from here on, well lets say, one of those "Nice and Scary" experience. The roads from here were awesome, smooth layers of tarmac, good amount of traffic of cars, trucks and buses, good as easy to handle. This kept the dizziness away, as we were required to keep at full attention level and boredom never kicked. Another factor contributing to it was, super cross-winds.
Almost all would have experienced this, when you are overtaking a truck, suddenly all the wind hitting on to you vanishes and as soon as you just get ahead of truck... BAM !!! you have hit a "wind wall", and picture this, you trying to get back in your lane, leaning on to left and wind pushing you to your right,and rear wheel going crazy..hahaha..it's fun to imagine
After one of such experiences, our own Newbee signaled me to stop, I did, and his voice was filled with panic, "mera tyre shayad puncture ho gaya hai, wo achanak se doosri side jaa raha hai" and well, I introduced him to a new person, new companion of rides.... "Cross Winds". We had some laugh, and we started again. But just after few minutes of more ride, I saw a lonely tree on curve, I thought "wow, what amazing picture" and zoomed past it, and made up in mind that I will stop come whatsoever at next similar spot. Many "Lonely" trees went past, but none was like it. And main problem was, I wanted to find similar scene, a tree on curve, with unending fields on left and blurred hill range beyond them and on right clearly visible hills and best thing was right amount of light. So kept up my patience and it did pay


And we Started again,
there is a nice feeling about "Starting" again, it mentally keeps you fresh I guess.
so battling cross winds wasn't enough, we thrown up with longest of Ghat section, and well it was awesome, minus roads, Picturesque plateaus on both side, easy curves, steep U-bends, complete with Jam packed Traffic. So this went eventful and me n Vikas both keeping up good speed, kept going on, It was 8:49 am and Akshat was nowhere to be seen, well in front of us, then I received a message "Waiting at diversion , 206 on Odo" which I obviously read later, when I stopped to let Vikas catch up. So our Akshat had already reached Nashik. I stopped at 9:05 am and checked message and replies "ruko wahin, akele ride pe nikle the kya, aake watt hai apki, photos ke liye toh rukte...". In few minutes Vikas joined, and we went ahead for Nashik. Reached Akshat at 9:20 am, and then head on to Dindoli Road, by then had received message from "Lil relative" that she will joining us.
We went to Panchvati Circle, and then I ringed her a call, one thing led to another, and it was decided we will be going to their place for quick breakfast and then head to Saputara. And brilliant part was, she was coming to pick us.. (we rarely get such chances )
She came, and I was like, she is indeed "Little relative"...
So she led us to her home, and well very fast, as if some aeroplane was after, zooming past traffic in hurry like there is a house on fire. So when we reached her home, on inquiry she said sweetly...

"aap log bikers ho, mujhe laga tez chalate hoge, toh isliye tez chala ri thi" - and I have met bike crazy, ride fanatic - Tanvi
We went like...lightening struck..and said, nothing like that we drive safe, well let's go and have Breakfast...

^^ What do i do, R15 is so fast .

or may be limitation of R15 :P

Fantastic log so far Antiqueblue!
Waiting for more pics ....

Ride to X Places - The Story - Saputara








And we reached Saputara around 1:15 pm, travelling a total of 297 Kms from Pune, and having loads of fun, Not bad !!!

Thanks

Compiled log till now in first post

Ride to X Places - The Story - Sula

Almost all rides are for various objectives. But applying Rider's Algorithm of Fun, these list of objectives can be shortened to a very few basic necessities.
1. Good Scenic Roads.
2. Cloudy-Sunny weather
3. Many Photographs
4. Good Company
We all were fortunate to have tasted all the above four till now. But still we found something missing...
Ahh!!! "Taste" se yaad aya..
5. Variety of Food

I would not be wrong to say that every rider enjoys having different regional food of the place. It's like "oh, we are in Gujarat, let's have gujarati food". Well that's the exact statement made by Akshat after being dejected by renowned Saputara Lake.

Sometimes Photographer in me takes over Rider..

And we started searching for a place to have good Gujarati food. And we reached a cross road. Left road going uphill and even right road going uphill while straight ahead went to Surat. So that meant all the eating joints were on the road we just came from...and none looked good enough to eat.
So we did inki ponki and decided to go to LAKEVIEW RESORT...ohh no it didn't have any view..and as was decided we ordered Gujarati thali. And which was very unlike gujarati thali. The thali had, dal, Alu sabzi and tamatar usal alongwith 6 rotis, butter milk. The only consumable thing of these was Butter milk.
Dal was so sweet that it felt we were served hot custard .
And we didn't waste a lot of time there..


After taking a good 45 minutes halt, we saddled up again. And decided to search around those hills. So from the cross roads we went to left up hill road which after few meters had a Y junction with another going down hill and another going uphill. We presumed downhill was going to lake, and with no one having any interest in going to lake, decided to go upwards. But alas, just after a turn there was a big gate and inquiry got to know, the road is blocked due to bad condition. Dejected we again went to cross roads and this time went straight ahead (right uphill road from previous perspective), again uphill...we shifted down to second gear, bike is going uphill..more uphill, suddenly there is no tar road, and only stone, that too big one and when I look up from road, there is uphill u-turn and shift to first gear, And I stopped there, saw the road condition, and thought it wasn't worth risk going more up, as roads were terribly terrible. and with saddened face we came back to cross roads. Akshat was by now totally disappointed, Vikas too low but was optimist and I was looking to somehow push the gang. Straight went to police wala, who told us to take Y junction downhill road. Well that was the turning point, and after some 1.5 Km of off roading on flat hill tops, we reached a spot from where it was breath taking view, winds so strong that everyone was afraid to go near edge and well Akshat's gloves also survived flying off..


We left from Saputara at around 3:20 pm. Our return trip was a speedy one. A nice change was strong spell of rain shower, which soothed down the slightly increasing temperature. While return, thanks to my amazing pillion's understanding,we were crouching whole time taking corner with elegance and trying keep up with Limited. We did good on that front, sometimes it's a nice to push your limits I guess.


So since starting at 4:30 am in Morning, we decided it's time to give our steeds and ourselves a bit of rest. After dropping Tanvi at her place, we got back to Google baba. And did come to our rescue, with few knocking of hotel doors, found a place to rest at panchvati yatri.


once we lied on the bed, all the enthu went to sleeping. To our rescue came Vikas. And started pushing us "chalo yaar, Sula chalte hain, maine friends se suna hai bahut achi jagah hai, itni door aye hain chalo chalo chalo". But Akshat had some relatives to meet to, and it was decided I and Vikas led by Tanvi will head (she turned out to be good city guide) to Sula Vineyard and will meet back for dinner. Therefore Sula it was ....


The place is must go for all who go to visit Nashik. It has very good location, and well cheap pleasantries are always welcome, Right ???. A nice setup of restro, with good music being played and very good crowd
Sitting there where 2 hours went, we never realized and it was Akshat's message that made us realise we have to go back for dinner. We left from Sula, with some pleasantries and headed back to hotel.

and..


Well we had dinner and decided to start next day at 5 am SHARP...and it turned out very sharp...
That pretty much sums up our first day of ride. In which we covered -

4:30 am - Start
9:15 am - Nashik
1:13 pm - Saputara
4:41 pm- Nashik
7:30 pm - Sula
11:45 pm - Good Night

End of Day 1 - But next day was more awesome !!!

Great ride! A nice narration and some beautiful pictures

And yeah, those notes look good

About the feeling u describe....

Now I know there are many others like me who rejoice planning the trip and then making it happen.

Cheerz Dude!

Very unique thing, that stamp post notes...

Nice trip. Beautiful pictures. Loved the stickies and the little poems. Thanks for sharing.