Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
- Pat Conroy
It has been a week since we are back from our road trip. Routine has taken over, but the mind still wanders back to the last week of December 2016, when we had a fantastic road trip to Rajasthan. We did take quite a few photos and they will definitely bring back memories. However, certain memories are trapped in moments and I wanted to cherish them for a long time to come. Our kids who had accompanied us on the road trip would hardly recollect any of this when they would grow up. A blog seemed like the best idea to intertwine the memories with the pictures and create stories for them to read later on.
I love travelling. The destination is one thing, no doubt it's important, but it's the journey which gives birth to a lot of stories. Ever since I have owned the cheetah (my XUV 5OO), I keep looking out for opportunities to travel - far or near, wherever possible. I had recently been to Bijapur district in Karnataka (Pune - Solapur - Bijapur - Pune), then to Dandeli and Karwar (Pune - Belgaum - Dandeli - Karwar - Pune). The year end trip to Rajasthan with our gang had already been planned. The best part that we had agreed for it to be a road trip.
9 days and 3521 kms later, the travel had made us all richer in terms of the experience. It is definitely something worth sharing - the various shades of Rajasthan: the golden yellow desert city of Jaisalmer, the majestic and romantic lake city of Udaipur, the evergreen, chilly hill station of Mount Abu captured the beauty and variety of Rajasthan. Add to it the thrill of the visit to the India - Pakistan international border, that too by road. And the experience of driving the 2200 cc, 140 bhp beast called the cheetah on the lovely highways of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan was the biggest takeaway for me.
Many thanks to the gang for participating and agreeing to the road trip. Hats off to the kids Ruhi and Trisha for not complaining even once during the road trip. We wish the rest of the gang from our society would have joined us, but there's always a next time. Hope this blog brings back memories to those who were part of the road trip, and provides useful information for those who intend to travel.
Without further ado, here's a flashback into our road trip. The posts in this blog are ordered in chronological order, and are numbered from 00 (this post) to 15 (last post). Please feel free to leave your comments and spread the joy by sharing!
- Pat Conroy
It has been a week since we are back from our road trip. Routine has taken over, but the mind still wanders back to the last week of December 2016, when we had a fantastic road trip to Rajasthan. We did take quite a few photos and they will definitely bring back memories. However, certain memories are trapped in moments and I wanted to cherish them for a long time to come. Our kids who had accompanied us on the road trip would hardly recollect any of this when they would grow up. A blog seemed like the best idea to intertwine the memories with the pictures and create stories for them to read later on.
I love travelling. The destination is one thing, no doubt it's important, but it's the journey which gives birth to a lot of stories. Ever since I have owned the cheetah (my XUV 5OO), I keep looking out for opportunities to travel - far or near, wherever possible. I had recently been to Bijapur district in Karnataka (Pune - Solapur - Bijapur - Pune), then to Dandeli and Karwar (Pune - Belgaum - Dandeli - Karwar - Pune). The year end trip to Rajasthan with our gang had already been planned. The best part that we had agreed for it to be a road trip.
9 days and 3521 kms later, the travel had made us all richer in terms of the experience. It is definitely something worth sharing - the various shades of Rajasthan: the golden yellow desert city of Jaisalmer, the majestic and romantic lake city of Udaipur, the evergreen, chilly hill station of Mount Abu captured the beauty and variety of Rajasthan. Add to it the thrill of the visit to the India - Pakistan international border, that too by road. And the experience of driving the 2200 cc, 140 bhp beast called the cheetah on the lovely highways of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan was the biggest takeaway for me.
Many thanks to the gang for participating and agreeing to the road trip. Hats off to the kids Ruhi and Trisha for not complaining even once during the road trip. We wish the rest of the gang from our society would have joined us, but there's always a next time. Hope this blog brings back memories to those who were part of the road trip, and provides useful information for those who intend to travel.
Without further ado, here's a flashback into our road trip. The posts in this blog are ordered in chronological order, and are numbered from 00 (this post) to 15 (last post). Please feel free to leave your comments and spread the joy by sharing!
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| Aniket Anikhindi, Pune |
Yess.. We would have loved to join.. Anyways.. There is always next tie6as you have said..
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