At 8pm we left in my bike with the required gears on us and plastic money for survival in our wallets.. It was drizzling then, however we got a a flat tyre by the time we reached Indiranagar 100 feet road. I went ahead and pushed my bike and got it fixed to realise that it was just the valve of the rear wheel that was stuck due to which the tyre got deflated..We got it fixed imagining we are going ahead with journey, when Kam mentioned to me that we have almost had a flat tyre, it was drizzling, may be the circumstances does not want us to go ahead tonight for the ride.
As always I insisted that we leave right then and we headed towards Mysore in my "Attempted Suicide" which is a Royal Enfield Machismo (Chrome Color). We slowly rode down and pit stopped in a dhaba for supper and landed Mysore @ 2am on 25th June 2011 and managed hunting for a lodge to sleep over as my Daddy had asked me not to ride at night (Such a obedient son, I am that I realised atleast at 2am about it, better late than nevva;)) As usual we landed waking up only @ 10 am..By then my parents had reached Coimbatore and my Momma called me up to say if I would join them for lunch for which I said may be a little late for the lunch thou...We checked out of the motel @ 12 and headed to a gas station and filled the tank and started riding towards Bandipur.....The rain had stopped then and we were riding and KAM being a passionate beginner photographer just started to click with his SLR sitting on the rear of my bike...We ofcourse stopped at various places just to click as we liked the locations...FInally after reaching Bandipur I felt the safari wasn't worth it as we had been to that safari a several times we decided to ride further to Masinagudi, Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary through the woods...Here we got lucky and saw some deers, Monkeys & also came across an elephant crossing the road which we were passing by from.....We felt happy and took a enroute inia different direction inside the jungle parked the bike inside and started our photography amidst the woods..Kam also tried to connect to internet through his laptop right there, however din;t manage getting the signal to connect..as we (INDIA) are still developing and not yet completely a developed country....The passerby boyz stoppd by and said its not safe for us to park the bike iinside the woods to do photography as they had just spotted a elephant right behind the place where we had parked my bike....
We scooted from there and landed up in KAM's favourite TEA shop in the hair pin bends of OOTY (UDHAGAMANDALAM)..We had crossed 15 hair pin bends while it was drizzling and stopped over before completely got drenched..We stuffed good hot bhajias (Vazhakkai Bajji) and chocolate flavored tea and wait for the rain to subside...We moved on once the rain had subdued a bit and covered the 36 hairpin bends totally...We further rode down to Coonnoor to buy VARKI's which is a famous bakery item in Coonnoor and you get it in New Indian Bakery which is the most famous bakery around that hill station and also picked up home made chocolates...
Later we realized that it was too late and both of us had to reach Coimbatore as by then we had informed at home that we are heading to Coimby in my bike and we shall reach there any moment. We rode down another 14 hair pen bends and had reduced the pit stops for photography as we already were running late...and finally passed by Karamadai & Balck Thunder and dropped Kam at his house around 2030 hours and both of us were drenched.. His parents forced a cup of coffee as this was the first time I had been to his house..Gulped the coffee down and headed to 3/23 D Nalvar Nagar, Coimbatore to my uncle's (Mr.MNA Iyer) house to meet my parents and wish them for their wedding anniversary and also meet my elder brother, uncle & Aunty..This was the house wherein I had stayed during my 9th & 10th standard of my schooling days in Chinmaya Vidyalaya. My parents were a little upset that I was just about 9 hours late, however were happy to see me live and kicking:)
Rest of the journey shall be very soon added
