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The Final Night (or was it) … Next morning we are riding to Mumbai…. About 850KMs to be covered ASAP so that I can 1) save my pre mature divorce
(Damn I am now sounding like a henpecked guy) and 2) Pack my stuff to ride back to office\Pune!
So after packing in all the things, we crashed to sleep ‘Hoping’ that we wake up on time! And we did, I mean wok up on time which was time plus 4 hours… so here we are lazy, tired @ 10:00 AM and we still have a long distance to cover. Finally we dragged our miserable rears off the bed and got ready and left. We were so used to give gifts by now that Anup gifted his mobile charger and me ended gifting something very pricey and very special @ the hotel. For security reasons I don’t want to mention what it was! So here we are… 11:00 AM all set to ride to Mumbai, and the weather was nice… we start riding, refuelled and we almost instantly looked at each other and said “Damn, I will miss this place!” and then looked at each other and conspired about coming here again sometime later… (read sooner than later)
2010KMs celebration on the RTR...
The rest of the journey was pretty neat, we covered about 250KMs and reached Ahmedabad in just about 3 hours. This is one stretch of road that is not too taxing and you can maintain high speeds easily. We were ourselves surprised when we reached Ahmedabad. We saw Bunny and another rider zipping on the Busa and another Fazer (I guess) , man that road would be so much fun on such machines!
Somewhere before the Great Ring road I lost Anup, thanks to a couple of truckers who went berserk. And then after navigating out of the ever confusing ring road, finally met up Anup near Amul
A few more hours later after being greeted with the traffic at the same junction we moved on and one only to greeted by the Rain God near the Gujurat border! (yeah you read it right) … that’s the last thing you want, a reasonably dark evening, a near blind partner, two bikes with moderate headlights, fresh new oil slick roads and a gazzilion truckers coming towards you, and a race against time….
We stopped to have some nice dinner at a dhaba, hoping that the rain would stop… and it did…
We were still getting a lot of questions about who we are, where we are from.. and chants of Jai Maharshtra :P (DK, am sure you would be so proud of us) and they were kind finding it hard to believe that we are coming from Udaipur and targeting reaching home by 11!
A nice dinner later, we were back on the road…. And then we find rain again… but we continued riding and that was a wise decision as we left the rain behind us!
Finally at around 11:30 we were near the Vasai phatak, we stopped for a last chat and we turned back towards our home! This is where it all began and now a week later, and about 2700 more KMs on the ODO this was a brilliant ride.
2650 KMs on RTR (plus a additional 60odd to come to Manor) last stop at my building compound!
Anup is so much different from me, but we end up thinking the same thing, and that is something that worked for us very well throughout the ride. Our take on many things are different, but when it comes to riding, it automatically falls in place! Looking forward to ride with you again man!
The Final Night (or was it) … Next morning we are riding to Mumbai…. About 850KMs to be covered ASAP so that I can 1) save my pre mature divorce
(Damn I am now sounding like a henpecked guy) and 2) Pack my stuff to ride back to office\Pune! So after packing in all the things, we crashed to sleep ‘Hoping’ that we wake up on time! And we did, I mean wok up on time which was time plus 4 hours… so here we are lazy, tired @ 10:00 AM and we still have a long distance to cover. Finally we dragged our miserable rears off the bed and got ready and left. We were so used to give gifts by now that Anup gifted his mobile charger and me ended gifting something very pricey and very special @ the hotel. For security reasons I don’t want to mention what it was! So here we are… 11:00 AM all set to ride to Mumbai, and the weather was nice… we start riding, refuelled and we almost instantly looked at each other and said “Damn, I will miss this place!” and then looked at each other and conspired about coming here again sometime later… (read sooner than later)
2010KMs celebration on the RTR...
The rest of the journey was pretty neat, we covered about 250KMs and reached Ahmedabad in just about 3 hours. This is one stretch of road that is not too taxing and you can maintain high speeds easily. We were ourselves surprised when we reached Ahmedabad. We saw Bunny and another rider zipping on the Busa and another Fazer (I guess) , man that road would be so much fun on such machines!
Somewhere before the Great Ring road I lost Anup, thanks to a couple of truckers who went berserk. And then after navigating out of the ever confusing ring road, finally met up Anup near Amul
A few more hours later after being greeted with the traffic at the same junction we moved on and one only to greeted by the Rain God near the Gujurat border! (yeah you read it right) … that’s the last thing you want, a reasonably dark evening, a near blind partner, two bikes with moderate headlights, fresh new oil slick roads and a gazzilion truckers coming towards you, and a race against time….
We stopped to have some nice dinner at a dhaba, hoping that the rain would stop… and it did…
We were still getting a lot of questions about who we are, where we are from.. and chants of Jai Maharshtra :P (DK, am sure you would be so proud of us) and they were kind finding it hard to believe that we are coming from Udaipur and targeting reaching home by 11!
A nice dinner later, we were back on the road…. And then we find rain again… but we continued riding and that was a wise decision as we left the rain behind us!
Finally at around 11:30 we were near the Vasai phatak, we stopped for a last chat and we turned back towards our home! This is where it all began and now a week later, and about 2700 more KMs on the ODO this was a brilliant ride.
2650 KMs on RTR (plus a additional 60odd to come to Manor) last stop at my building compound!
Anup is so much different from me, but we end up thinking the same thing, and that is something that worked for us very well throughout the ride. Our take on many things are different, but when it comes to riding, it automatically falls in place! Looking forward to ride with you again man!
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