Our Travelogue

Our wanderlust has taken us all over India, from the mountains and monasteries of Sikkim to the temples of Tamilnadu and beaches of Goa. Between us, we have visited Thailand, UK, China, UAE, Turkey and Cambodia and Singapore and dream of Egypt, Myanmar and Australia, among several other places. A fond memory is of a mammoth 3000 km long road trip we took in December 2007 in our Hyundai Verna. The route – Bombay to Hyderabad and Bangalore and Kasargod in North Kerala via Madikeri and all the way up coastal Karnataka and Goa before reaching Bombay ten days later, dazed and bedraggled but bursting with good memories, some of them unique to road travel. Like stopping for steaming chai at roadside shacks early in the morning… Like stumbling upon a sign post leading to Timbaktu in the middle of nowhere in Andhra Pradesh… Like feeling the cool breeze on your face, whooshing and roaring as you drive on open lonely roads, music louder than usual, competing against the sound of the wind… Like stopping at railway crossings, watching tiny bicycles make their way under and through the gates down in anticipation of the train… Like the happy surprise of making and changing plans as you go along, turning off from the highway to explore that small temple, climb that inviting hill or just take another snack break… Like the sense of deja vu as you pass through small towns bang in the middle of national highways, civilization slowly spilling on to the main road in search of a livelihood, shops selling everything from flowers to plastic buckets on either side of the road… Like the unparalleled pleasure of catching a golden yellow orange pink red sunset, as the day winds down slowly and lazily, the road stretching as a dark snake in front of you…