I had some how just managed to park my Yellow Wagon R at Morine Bakery when a Silver colour Ford Fiesta pulled over right behind me and a mean looking guy got out of it, walked towards me and asked me “is this your parking space.” And when I said no… he asked again “Then y r u parking here.” I had no idea what to tell him… n was just thinking with a grim face… When a smile broke over the mean looking man’s face n he said “Hi, I am Krishna Mohan.”
This is how it all began for me…
10 Guys most of whom had never met each other before met at the Morine Bakery at 7 in the morning to undertake one of my most memorable drives in recent times…
Two Cars and a Bike sped away on a superb road to Vikarabad after having a light breakfast at Farmaish Café. Imtiyaz bhai who was driving my car pushed the paddled till the speedometer touched 100.
We reached Vikarabad by 9 to be joined by Rahul the local lad from Anantagiri. From there on we were actually looking out for hills. At this point I actually thought the entire thing was a disappointment. Someone even suggested that we add the word ‘desperate’ to the name of our trekking group on Orkut, when we tried to just ramble off the road and walk into some thorny bushes.
Rahul himself was quite apologetic about the place. He suggested two more ‘view points.’ The first one was almost as if we were standing on the 2nd floor of a building and looking down. The route to the second one made it a little interesting. However, when we reached there it was just a cliff overlooking the ghat road…
All this while the main hero of the trip was Shaibal’s Enfield. Most of us were mounting it and Aditya was obliging one and all with his Canon camera pictures.
Finally Rahul suggested that we go to the dam. After driving for around 20 kms and then around 5 kms on a dirt track we reached the highlight of this trip, ‘The lake.’
The lake was simply so marvelous that Ankur, Shaibal and Bibhujit stripped themselves right down to their underwear and jumped into the cool waters. Imtiyaz by now had befriended a few locals and we wandered around to try and circumnavigate the lake… Imtiyaz and Rahul gave up soon and found a nice shade under a tree and decided to relax. Soon Imtiyaz bhai was snoring and Rahul digitally recording the sound of his snore as a ringer tone.
Aditya, Srinath, Vishal and yours truly had to abandon the mission to circumnavigate the lake when we reached a rivulet. We sat there and Aditya served us some life giving bread and butter. We then walked back to where we had parked the cars and off we hit the road again to Vikarabad. All this while we were either cracking jokes or networking.
On the way we visited a temple where a spring of water seemed to give out a perennial source of bathing water that came out from a sculpted cow’s mouth. It was interesting taking some pictures there.
Rahul then took us to his place and from there to a dhaba where we waited for more than 45 minutes for some lovely food. When the treat arrived it surely gave our digestive systems a run for the money. I even felt the effects of the spice on Sunday morning.
When we were about to leave the dhaba, Shaibal spotted a flat front tyre. My virgin car had just had its first puncture… It was kind of adventurous with all of us experimenting and only one guy Krishna Mohan actually knowing how to do it. Thanks to Krishna my car was back on track with in 15 minutes…
We then bid bye bye to Rahul and sped back to Farmaish where we all assembled once more for a cup of Tea. Thus ended my first trip with newfound friends on Orkut’s Hyderabad Trekking. Promising each other that the next trip will be soon, we all went our way with lovely memories of the trip.
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