After a good night's sleep at Vishal's place, we got up by 7:00 AM. We finished all the morning activities including yesterday's blog and left his place at 10:00. We then set out for Vohuman Cafe for breakfast. We reached the place after a little bit of hunting but found it closed on arrival. After this disappointment we decided to continue with our journey and have our breakfast on the way.
Bombay-Pune Expressway was the best stretch of road I've ever driven on.
We averaged close to 120-130 KM/Hr there with highest speed being around 200 KM/Hr. Reached Bombay 12:30 and by the time we could get out of Bombay, it was 2:30 PM. The initial part of the highway after Bombay was under construction and had a lot of traffic.
We had our lunch on the way. It was a Parsi fare. Nice food. After stuffing myself, I headed for the rear sit for an afternoon siesta. Sreejith continued with the drive after that. After negotiating the traffic for sometime he handed over the steering wheel to Vinay. Vinay, who by his own claim had never driven more than 70 KM in a day, was a different beast on the road. The next 2-3 Hrs were what could be best described as 'Road Rash': remember that game where you ride a bike through traffic with zero consideration to rules. He drove like there is no tomorrow. Crisscrossing lanes once every 5 seconds. His rage was finally stopped by a traffic jam before the bridge on Narmada River.
I took over the wheels after that. The jam was at least 6-7 KM queue of mostly trucks and some cars. Having a little experience in driving through such traffic, we took the 4th lane (read the dirt track). Negotiating the sand, stones, pot holes and some errant truck drivers we finally made it through the jam in 1.5 hrs. If we had stuck to the tarred roads it could have easily been 3 hrs.
Once we crossed the bridge it was smooth sailing till Ahmedabad. We once averaged around 120 KM/Hr stopping only to have a light dinner on the way. We reached Nidhi Didi's place by 11:30 in the night. She, her husband Sanjay Jijaji and her son and my nephew, Utkarsh were waiting for us. After taking a shower and chatting with them for a little we crashed into the beds. This was Day 2 of our Bharat Bhraman yatra.
PS:Still no pics guys. Sorry. Will do it in all probabilities once we reach Jaipur.
Bombay-Pune Expressway was the best stretch of road I've ever driven on.
We averaged close to 120-130 KM/Hr there with highest speed being around 200 KM/Hr. Reached Bombay 12:30 and by the time we could get out of Bombay, it was 2:30 PM. The initial part of the highway after Bombay was under construction and had a lot of traffic.We had our lunch on the way. It was a Parsi fare. Nice food. After stuffing myself, I headed for the rear sit for an afternoon siesta. Sreejith continued with the drive after that. After negotiating the traffic for sometime he handed over the steering wheel to Vinay. Vinay, who by his own claim had never driven more than 70 KM in a day, was a different beast on the road. The next 2-3 Hrs were what could be best described as 'Road Rash': remember that game where you ride a bike through traffic with zero consideration to rules. He drove like there is no tomorrow. Crisscrossing lanes once every 5 seconds. His rage was finally stopped by a traffic jam before the bridge on Narmada River.
Once we crossed the bridge it was smooth sailing till Ahmedabad. We once averaged around 120 KM/Hr stopping only to have a light dinner on the way. We reached Nidhi Didi's place by 11:30 in the night. She, her husband Sanjay Jijaji and her son and my nephew, Utkarsh were waiting for us. After taking a shower and chatting with them for a little we crashed into the beds. This was Day 2 of our Bharat Bhraman yatra.
PS:
interesting part of the journey. The weather change would now become more evident. the warmth of bangalore to the heat of ahmedabad; to scorch of Jaipur.
ReplyDeleteTry to see the jantar mantar; that's for the engineers. and of course the hawa mahal.
must see jantar mantar.
ReplyDeleter u going for vacation? what happened to IWIN then? hahahahahahahahahaha
ReplyDelete@Vishu It was 41 C at Jaipur but I'm told Delhi is cooler. Have them both will try and visit them again if time permits
ReplyDelete@संजय जीजाजी Will try
@gopa What's IWIN?