Whatta Trip!

Hats off to our friendships. This thing can take you to many things. And for me, the most memorable moment in my life.

We were 10 of us sitting on a cool, lazy Friday evening sipping our tea when suddenly one of us popped up with an idea to do something wacky. Everybody agreed for it. We all really wanted something that we never ever dreamt of because of the usual routine work that was nagging us down.

And that was, going on a trip of 300+ kms by bike! At the least, I hadnt seen this kind of craze in bikes. And best thing was, everybody agreed on it! So, we planned for a road trip to a place where water falls from high mountains, in greater amounts and sounding like thunder.

All of us got up the very next day at 5 A.M for this one-of-a-kind trip. Dressed up in cool casuals and some jackets put up so as to wade off the heavy wind, we started off. Everybody was in full swing and excited. So, there started our journey.

We reached a place to halt for sometime at some 80 kms from Bangalore. This was covered in just one hour flat! I had never seen such an experience and it was terrific. The usual thing in my life was to use bike for some reasons, be it reaching destination or pull it up for work. This totally vibrated my senses! Awesome one that was..

Then, we pulled up to reach the destination and we were spell bounded for some time. The water, which was calm at the top, suddenly came roaring down to mesmerize people watching it. What a view it was! It tempted some of our guys to have a dip at the falls below,but we had to make a move. So, we finished it and started our journey again in those deadly, powerful cycles.

The road ahead was a circus to the drivers. Terrible roads trying to say 'Help us'. The worst maintained roads ever seen. Naturally, this causes for a breakdown in those mean machines and our bike went flat in tyres. Next came the repair thing which was done successfully but the worst was in front of our eyes after this.

Suddenly, a pack of policemen came to check why these idiots stopped their bikes in middle of the road and started to check all documents. The real fun came in now. My bike dint had the papers itself!

As we were bachelors, they found the so-called 'Bakras' to have a taste of some police power. We pleaded them, literally, by asking us to forgive and god only knows,what came in those minds, let us off. We were dumbfounded for sometime thinking "is this our country"??

We then headed off to a nearby place. Then came the task of finding a room to halt for the night. Since cricket fever was going on, we planned for a motel which has TV for live proceedings. And that dint disappoint us in the end.

The match was a nail-biting performance done by our Dhoni guys against the bullish Gillies! That was a match that I had seen fully only after the world cup 2003!Finally, the match ended with only one slogan on all of our guys, "Chak De, India"!

The next day was a good one, seeing all the places that we planned for and finally landed in our homes late night.

But, one thing. The bike is surely going to rule people. And, this is why they like pulling these machines and become ROADIES! Cheers to biking!!