Planning the unplanned trip
As the friday passes by, as if set by a clock with an alarm, mind started its own imagination and calculation for the Sunday. As Usual with no concrete plan, came the saturday. Finally late afternoon with much debate, I took a adverse decision to go for matheran trip, neglecting a really nice pune trip to falicitate one of our mess guys. I knew I would be feeling sad about the decision of not going to pune. But any ways, like always, going through with the decision, I geared up for the trip. I had my frends along equally contributing to plan the unplanned trip. Taking the most unknown route, starting at dusk on bikes on unkown roads was as though not enough, we hadn't decided where to stay. So, Starting the play at Bad light, we managed to reach the first halt at Neral wthout any loss ( literally). The only sensible decision taken by the group of 4 (with three of them project planners by profession) was to take a night halt and not go further that night.
The next step too wasnt planned. we were going to stay... well we didnt know where. But we managed to find out a good room some how for all of us to lie down for remaining five hrs. The excitement of the occasion really grips all to such an extent so as to wake up all wood logs well before sunrise. Even leisure morning chores were unable to stop us from starting before dawn.
As always a bad decision to do that, the Ghat to reach the foot of matheran had our lives hung on the brakes of our bikes. It was deadly dangerous for an unknown biker to tread a ghat like that with no safety railings even. Complementing each other to be safely up on such a road, we were finally to the location. It was relatively easy to plan the next phase. There was the real absorption of the fresh air, the admiration of nature with all its glory and and enjoying the environment as much as possible. Opting for a horse ride to cover half the distant points had us fresh even after half day of sight seeing and wandering. Walk in the woods for next phase would have had our breath if it wasnt for the group of gals who actuly had that. Content with all beauty of Nature and Natural beauties, finally we called off our trip at about 4.00 pm. Dread for the ghats had us startiing in full sunlight and then thinking as usual after coming down as to we could have been okay even if we had spent another hr more.
coming down to Neral we started journey back home via the other route only to find thios one better than the earlier one. We reached home exactly completing the total episode in 24 hrs only with exhausted bodies and a very rejuvinated fresh mind. calculating the cash expenses had us all relieved to find them within capacities of our wallets. Digital media had made sure the freshness remains for a long time ahead. For the planners, Planning the unplanned trip was not a bad plan afterall...
The next step too wasnt planned. we were going to stay... well we didnt know where. But we managed to find out a good room some how for all of us to lie down for remaining five hrs. The excitement of the occasion really grips all to such an extent so as to wake up all wood logs well before sunrise. Even leisure morning chores were unable to stop us from starting before dawn.
As always a bad decision to do that, the Ghat to reach the foot of matheran had our lives hung on the brakes of our bikes. It was deadly dangerous for an unknown biker to tread a ghat like that with no safety railings even. Complementing each other to be safely up on such a road, we were finally to the location. It was relatively easy to plan the next phase. There was the real absorption of the fresh air, the admiration of nature with all its glory and and enjoying the environment as much as possible. Opting for a horse ride to cover half the distant points had us fresh even after half day of sight seeing and wandering. Walk in the woods for next phase would have had our breath if it wasnt for the group of gals who actuly had that. Content with all beauty of Nature and Natural beauties, finally we called off our trip at about 4.00 pm. Dread for the ghats had us startiing in full sunlight and then thinking as usual after coming down as to we could have been okay even if we had spent another hr more.
coming down to Neral we started journey back home via the other route only to find thios one better than the earlier one. We reached home exactly completing the total episode in 24 hrs only with exhausted bodies and a very rejuvinated fresh mind. calculating the cash expenses had us all relieved to find them within capacities of our wallets. Digital media had made sure the freshness remains for a long time ahead. For the planners, Planning the unplanned trip was not a bad plan afterall...