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Prologue:
When it’s meant to happen, it will happen no matter what. This Ride was a testament to the aforesaid statement. The plans for NY 2017 was made way back in March of 2016 when one my close friends called me up and demanded I immediately book Sunburn 10 Early Bird Ticket. I was really not inclined to drink and dance 4 days but what the hell, I booked the tickets for 5 persons and that was it. My NY 2017 plans were made 9 months in advance.
But, I forgot that life can take a turn any instant. Come July, we started hearing rumors that Goa CM won’t be allowing Sunburn to happen and the venue might change. With time, rumor became reality and on November 18th Sunburn officially announced that they were shifting the Venue to Pune from Goa and those who wanted to cancel the tickets can do so and get a full refund. You can understand the frustration as all plans we made were royally screwed up.
However, despite all this I tried again to make a Plan B but sadly nothing came up and a concrete plan was never formed. From last 5 years there has always been a plan for New Year with friends but it looked like this Year it was simply not meant to be.
With December coming in faster than I expected, I finally took a deep breath and decided that I will take a tour of Karnataka and Goa on my bike. All Alone. So with this fixed in my mind, the plan unraveled within 3 days. Bookings were done as demonetization had hit hard and I didn’t want to end up in a new place handing over precious cash. I was used to solo travel but this was the first time I was going away for 11 days and for me that was a long journey to look forward to.
As usual a teaser poster before the log is approved and officially begins
The Plan:
In simple one liner: Pune>Hampi>Coorg>Mangalore>GoKarna>Arambol>Palolem >Pune
This was supposed to be the points of rest and everything in between the places was fair game. Mangalore halt was cancelled at the last second and I directly made it to Gokarna from Coorg. Also the Falls area around Yellapur were cancelled as there was very little water in them. Other than this, nothing changed and I managed to visit all the places I originally intended to. Road conditions will be there in the Journey Details. Plan details will be given day wise and the stay details/expenses will be updated post conclusion of the Travelogue.
NOTE: Please ignore the timestamp on photos. Lazy ass like me couldn't be bothered to set the time
When it’s meant to happen, it will happen no matter what. This Ride was a testament to the aforesaid statement. The plans for NY 2017 was made way back in March of 2016 when one my close friends called me up and demanded I immediately book Sunburn 10 Early Bird Ticket. I was really not inclined to drink and dance 4 days but what the hell, I booked the tickets for 5 persons and that was it. My NY 2017 plans were made 9 months in advance.
But, I forgot that life can take a turn any instant. Come July, we started hearing rumors that Goa CM won’t be allowing Sunburn to happen and the venue might change. With time, rumor became reality and on November 18th Sunburn officially announced that they were shifting the Venue to Pune from Goa and those who wanted to cancel the tickets can do so and get a full refund. You can understand the frustration as all plans we made were royally screwed up.
However, despite all this I tried again to make a Plan B but sadly nothing came up and a concrete plan was never formed. From last 5 years there has always been a plan for New Year with friends but it looked like this Year it was simply not meant to be.
With December coming in faster than I expected, I finally took a deep breath and decided that I will take a tour of Karnataka and Goa on my bike. All Alone. So with this fixed in my mind, the plan unraveled within 3 days. Bookings were done as demonetization had hit hard and I didn’t want to end up in a new place handing over precious cash. I was used to solo travel but this was the first time I was going away for 11 days and for me that was a long journey to look forward to.
As usual a teaser poster before the log is approved and officially begins
The Plan:
In simple one liner: Pune>Hampi>Coorg>Mangalore>GoKarna>Arambol>Palolem >Pune
This was supposed to be the points of rest and everything in between the places was fair game. Mangalore halt was cancelled at the last second and I directly made it to Gokarna from Coorg. Also the Falls area around Yellapur were cancelled as there was very little water in them. Other than this, nothing changed and I managed to visit all the places I originally intended to. Road conditions will be there in the Journey Details. Plan details will be given day wise and the stay details/expenses will be updated post conclusion of the Travelogue.
NOTE: Please ignore the timestamp on photos. Lazy ass like me couldn't be bothered to set the time
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