Return journey was even more fantastic. I shall remember it for many such reasons. We started out from Gokarna that day around 9 30 PM. We were driving along the Ghats to reach Sirsi. We proceeded very slow. I was not sure what was the reason.
I was sitting at the last but one seat of the vehicle. All the people had closed their windows and there was no fresh air to breathe at all! Meanwhile I had some interesting conversations with a fellow trekker.
Once we reached Sirsi, I decided to sit next to the driver. We had a new passenger along the vehicle. Incidentally a cleaner friend of our driver had landed at Gokarna that day. He had a week long trip to Mumbai and our driver had voluntarily agreed to drop this chap to Bangalore.
It looked like he had worked very hard and was sleeping right next to the driver that too snoring. I was surprised, with such a heavy sounding engine, how this guy managed to sleep so peacefully.
All in all very slow road, the road condition was poor. There was road work going on many such deviations and the driver was looking for some Tea to keep him awake. But he could not find any.
Somehow we made it to NH4. and after reaching NH4 it was another story. The driver could not reach speeds above 80 kmph. The front left wheel used to wobble the moment we crossed the speed 80. As a result we had limited ourselves to this speed all through the return journey. Bangalore was 300 kilometers and more. It was a slow journey.
I always enjoyed driving along the highway. But today it was difficult keeping awake. The driver was too dozing. He smoked cigarette drank water did all the circus in the world to keep himself awake.
Finally at a toll, found some tea and drank tea. After drinking tea. he slept for sometime. But the fellow passengers did not allow him to sleep instead woke him up saying, they needed to reach Bangalore early.
I made myself comfortable in the last but one seat and after some distance and sometime, the driver eventually stopped at a petrol pump near Chitradurga unable to drive any further. He dozed off for an hour or so.
So we were going to be delayed but the delay turned out to be huge. Eventually we made it to Tumkur by 8 AM and most people readily agreed to stop for morning breakfast too at Kyathasandra.
Once done, we managed to reach Bangalore by 10 30 AM. Reached home by around 11 40AM.
This brought to an end a memorable outing. Not all things went as per plan. We could not complete the entire beach trek. But it was sweet indeed.
Cheers,
PS - Ever since then I have fallen in love with Gokarna, Kumtaa, Honnavara. Love to visit these places again and again.
I was sitting at the last but one seat of the vehicle. All the people had closed their windows and there was no fresh air to breathe at all! Meanwhile I had some interesting conversations with a fellow trekker.
Once we reached Sirsi, I decided to sit next to the driver. We had a new passenger along the vehicle. Incidentally a cleaner friend of our driver had landed at Gokarna that day. He had a week long trip to Mumbai and our driver had voluntarily agreed to drop this chap to Bangalore.
It looked like he had worked very hard and was sleeping right next to the driver that too snoring. I was surprised, with such a heavy sounding engine, how this guy managed to sleep so peacefully.
All in all very slow road, the road condition was poor. There was road work going on many such deviations and the driver was looking for some Tea to keep him awake. But he could not find any.
Somehow we made it to NH4. and after reaching NH4 it was another story. The driver could not reach speeds above 80 kmph. The front left wheel used to wobble the moment we crossed the speed 80. As a result we had limited ourselves to this speed all through the return journey. Bangalore was 300 kilometers and more. It was a slow journey.
I always enjoyed driving along the highway. But today it was difficult keeping awake. The driver was too dozing. He smoked cigarette drank water did all the circus in the world to keep himself awake.
Finally at a toll, found some tea and drank tea. After drinking tea. he slept for sometime. But the fellow passengers did not allow him to sleep instead woke him up saying, they needed to reach Bangalore early.
I made myself comfortable in the last but one seat and after some distance and sometime, the driver eventually stopped at a petrol pump near Chitradurga unable to drive any further. He dozed off for an hour or so.
So we were going to be delayed but the delay turned out to be huge. Eventually we made it to Tumkur by 8 AM and most people readily agreed to stop for morning breakfast too at Kyathasandra.
Once done, we managed to reach Bangalore by 10 30 AM. Reached home by around 11 40AM.
This brought to an end a memorable outing. Not all things went as per plan. We could not complete the entire beach trek. But it was sweet indeed.
Cheers,
PS - Ever since then I have fallen in love with Gokarna, Kumtaa, Honnavara. Love to visit these places again and again.
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