Hello everyone my name is Mayank. I'll be telling my journey to Mumbai via road trip. It is always amazing when you travel with your friends, one of my friend got transferred to Mumbai. He had his car to take with him, who else could be a better co Traveller then me. Of course, I am not a praising myself, but the fact is I know driving. Many of us know. We decided to travel Mumbai by road, the decision was made, but the question was? Will we both be travelling? Of course not, we often speak friends forever, the and plan entry of my roommates accompanied by my friend, of late night, we decided four of us will go. Bang, all of a sudden plan was made, let's go............
The second day, we were about to leave around 3 o'clock in the evening, rightly said, when you plan you don't plan, the plant does not execute the way we thought, similar was our case. The packing itself took around 5 hours the previous night it was 2:30 A.M, when we went off to bed. It is hard to get up early in the morning, and when you are delayed in the morning you are delayed for the rest of the day. So instead of 3 p.m. We started our journey at 6 p.m in the evening.
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When journey starts, it must start with selfie, we not only had our luggage to take but lot of memories to cherish, share, reconnect, remember and take them off to the place mumbai our destiny, we took few food water bottle, charger, the most important thing was missing. B Power Bank, a Bank which holds equal importance as of real bank, specially when you are travelling. It took 4500 rupees, value was much more. The power bank was only medium to get life to our phone., all set, get set go..
The names of course are equally important vamshi, the name resembles funny, cute, naughty, character, bajwa my beloved friend who was to travel. The journey started from Kondapur Hyderabad, we did not know the location the place, direction, all we dependent where on Google Maps, thanks to its creator, it showed us way. It was outer Ring Road, that showed us Mumbai. It was late already, so we travelled slowly, a song retro melody, party song, sometimes Punjabi. All mixed songs throughout India was being played. Thanks to jio for unlimited Internet. It was dark soon, the first the first we took selfie a place called, sorry I don't remember the name, all I remember is our place where we peed first, selfie was taken in the headlight. I took the staring in my hand, it was my turn to drive, the last time I drive was 2 months ago, I know but I like you experience, it was a smooth drive. It was late already, so we decided to stay. We found a Dhaba, took few Tandoori Roti, paneer Tikka, my non vegetarian friends too chicken, we were hungry, first arrangement was made for tummy, second arrangement was made for bummy, I mean to sleep, soon we found hotel blue diamond, it cost 1400 for one AC room. We found the accommodation. it reminded me of my last trip to coorg.
You cannot sleep early when you have friends, that is the most advantage, the hotel was booked at 1 a.m. And we slept around 3 A.M, the Ambience was good, scenery was better, rooms very nice, it was chilled, although it was hot outside, (the AC made the room ccold), finally after chit chat we went off to bed.-----
Early morning it was 8 A.M, then my eyes could see the sunshine, it was tiring but exciting, we had few challenges to overcome, we did it well, we had to return hyderabad the next day, a a ticket is mandatory, when you travel, I called up an agent, asked him to book a tatkal ticket from mumbai to Hyderabad, you know the Indian system, they will loot you the most, when you are in trouble most. Tatkal ticket agent for 3000 rupees per ticket where as the actual cost of tatkal ticket is 1400, see! Double the price. I made up my mind to travel via bus cancel it off.
Meanwhile my friend's father. I would call him generous father, he takes care of everything, for his kid, bajwa is oval pampered, but equally generous and kind, I will tell his story later that how he takes more time to get ready then a girl.( over sensitive guy).
His father tried booking the ticket in tatkal, unfortunately, it was 23 waiting list, we did not had option but to wait.
While all this was happening, it was 11 a.m. in the morning, we have to check out the same day, we got ready, took shower, and finally got ready, water bottle was taken, car started, we started from solapur, when tummy is hungry you are angry. The first spot had to bA restaurant, soon we got onem dhaba, again I don't remember the name. I demanded a aC room to set and eat.
Paneer was ordered, along with Tandoori Rot, hey, you know what when you are vegetarian, you do not have much option than paneer, poor vegetarian....
When tummy is happy you are happy, we proceeded,all filled, occupied, it was all Road we could see, this site was full of greenery, mountains, hills, plants, trees, yeah, fresh air, we crossed many places, really difficult thing to remember names, but when this is lonavala, you can never forget.
Yes, we were in lonavala, famous place. But the time was not favourable, it was around 9 p.m. when we reached, of course tummy was not happy, we found a resort, green hills and decided to eat somethhing.paneer had already occupied our stomach.-----
To be continued.............................................