On the way from T’puram to Alleppy comes the Varkala beach. Couldn’t stop myself from going to the beach just to enjoy the air on…
Leave a CommentMonth: December 2008
For the last few days, the thing on top of my mind has been the constant and rather large oil leak from the clutch case. I know the oil levels have been dangerously low and I risk damage to the main chain. I NEED TO do something about it.
Also, I was going to enter Kerala. God’s Own Country. The way I see it, the whole country is God’s Own. We have just left some Devil’s Own to take care of it.
Leave a CommentMy Tamil Nadu Tourism hotel in Mandapam was a pleasant surprise. Right on the beach, next to the Coast Guard base with shining hovercrafts for company, little beautiful jetty on the left. Lovely night on the beach. Absolutely beautiful morning.
Leave a CommentWise men said – Its darkest before the dawn. And we have understood the meaning of those lines whenever the dawn had come upon us. But now when it is dark.
The last few days have been extremely boring and taxing on me. Language has all of a sudden become an issue since there is no way in the world that I can understand a word of either Telugu or Tamil. The journeys have been long and without any real thought. It had all of a sudden become a quest for getting from point A to point B. From Jabalpur to Nagpur to Hyderabad to Chennai, it was pointless. I don’t know what I was doing. And then, the sun rose today.
Leave a CommentIts a Sunday. But that’s not the only reason why it is such a bad day for riding.
Its a sooooper lazy day. I didn’t feel like getting off my bed. I wanted a bathtub and me inside it. I wanted the AC on at full blast. And I wanted Quantum of Solace on TV. So it was a very bad day for riding halfway across tropical Tamil Nadu. South India, I guess, is like that.
Leave a CommentAfter the refreshing visit to the factory, getting down to riding wasn’t a very nice feeling. If I had my way, I would have found a nice air conditioned room (it was friggin’ hot) and slept my ass off. Add to it the fact that I was severely low on oil in the clutch case and without any replenishment and you realize the task ahead of me. I hated it.
Leave a CommentThis was a morning I was looking forward to for the last three days or so. Actually for a long long time. This was the morning I was to enter the pearly gates behind which the machines I ride were first born – whether three months ago or 35 years ago.
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Leave a CommentThere are days when life is all nice and cool. There are days when it sucks. And then, there are days when everything just falls into place and you have to bite yourself to believe it. Such is that 150 kilometer long stretch of two lane blacktop called the ECR. East Coast Road.
Leave a CommentMy host and friend Rohan Yeggina commented, “There is absolutely nothing to see and do in AP” and I had little choice but to believe him. The Eicher road atlas which I am referring to in this ride puts out places of interest in yellow highlight. There were none south of Hyderabad. So I took the best option. Get out of the state as soon as possible. I couldn’t go to Bangalore. That was on the way back. Next best thing – Chennai.
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