The Great Driving Challenge

Interstate Road trips can be a Luxury, howsoever the roads

09:19 AM

29 July 2009

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DRIVOMISSION

Posted By tirthankar

DRIVOBLOG® has a mission.

DRIVOBLOG® intends to stand testament to my efforts to prove that “Interstate Road Travel in India is Feasibile”. By traveling intercity and interstate by doing Non-Stop & Overnight trips, after assessing calculated risks.

The initiative is – Use personal transportation to avoid Airlines, Railways, Packers & Movers and Cab Companies, as much as possible.

DRIVOBLOG® could happen because I have anticipated, grabbed, pre-planned every opportunity to undertake Intercity Trips by road, whether on business or pleasure, cajoling bosses, marking holidays, combining weekends with holidays etc.

And of course I keep most of my essentials and consumables pre-packed with me, to remain in the ‘ready to go’ mode at all times.

That’s how DRIVOBLOG® mixes business with pleasure.

04:18 AM

29 July 2009

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DRIVOBLOG® - The Movie

Posted By tirthankar

Yes, you guessed it right. DRIVOBLOG® - will also be a Movie. This is not a story on myself, but of a young DINK couple, who for professional pursuits, have to relocate far away from their homes and cities, leave their parents and spouse behind, to work in crowded Metros like Hyderabad, Bangalore & Mumbai. The storyline will incredibly 'cinemate' - the 'cast' undergoing job switches, doing intercity relocations, facing financial disasters due to job loss, feeling the pain of social deprivation, experiencing alienation, indulging in adventurous trips and daring driving challenges on Indian Highways - all with the usual set of dramas and emotions that movies have. The target audience? - Millions of young Indian couples like us who can easily connect themselves to a movie like this, with heavy emotions. Though at a nascent stage at the moment, I am in the lookout of a script-writer whom I am able to share my ideas on it.

12:44 AM

29 July 2009

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DRIVOCRAVINGS

Posted By tirthankar

I suffer from ‘Anti-Motion Sickness’ which is a situation where one gets restless and lethargic, if not on the move (whether by Rail, Air or Road). It is this instinct that makes me do DRIVOBLOG®. I get a high when I suddenly realize that I have transported myself over great distances without feeling the sense of time. A travelling experience cannot happen without ‘physical relocation’, else we might just be happy seeing picture galleries and not travel at all. Still we only get to see the place we travel to and not physically feel it. But then what is it that ‘feels’ the relocation? Is it the different sights and of different people? Maybe, but then we see them in photographs and videos too. Or is it the 360 Degree vision? Maybe. But I strongly feel, it is actually the sub-conscious mind. As we relocate, the air quality, smell of the air, humidity levels, aroma, ambient noises, infrasound, and food tastes changes and these things convince the sub-conscious mind into believing that ‘relocation’ has happened. Otherwise how does one get an urge to leave the comforts of the bedroom and TV on a weekend and hit the highways. On road trips you are not visiting one destination, but every town, every landscape along the highway is a destination. Now that is an uncountable number of destinations, isn’t it?

11:42 PM

28 July 2009

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DEFIVISION DRIVOBLOG® ?

Posted By tirthankar

Search Google for “drivoblog” and it yields testament of the fact that the term DRIVOBLOG® has been coined by me and establishes it’s fan-following across India among the leading Online P2P Automobile & Travel Forums.

And who knows?...a day might come when it achieves ‘cult-status’ in the near future.

DRIVOBLOG® is spelt as Drive-o-Blog, (reminiscent as ‘filet-o-fish’).

DRIVOBLOG® (URL http://drivoblog.blogspot.com/ ) contains my personal Travelogues, Pictureslides, Speed-Sheets, City Reviews, Experiences, Views and everything related to Road Travel in India and is not promoting any form of direct commercial interest whatsoever.

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Wedlocked since 3 long years, Mrs. Basu is an Ex-Kingfisher and I am a 'Dreamer' - of a DEVELOPED INDIA.

Our reasons to travel by road range from pure utilitarian to holidaying to just avoid carting around luggage on platforms and terminals. I suffer from 'Anti-Motion Sickness' which is a situation where one gets restless and lethargic, if not on the move (whether by Rail, Air, or Road).

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