Friday, November 21, 2003

Back from Mysore

The trip went off very well. Driving is a pleasure in the morning: the roads are half empty, the morning breeze lifts you up, you sail through in 5th gear for most part of the journey. Coming back was a different kettle of fish, though. We stopped at a couple of places (Ranganathittu and Channapattana) and got delayed a bit. Took over an hour to navigate through the various half built flyovers in Bangalore, which was the most tiring part.

Charu and Harsha were quite happy we made it for the wedding. The lunch was not bad - quite a few sweets which I enjoyed. We could have had roast pork for lunch too, when a pig tried a suicide attack on our car, near Ramanagaram. I had to swerve and avoid it, more's the pity.

Rachu enjoyed the journey. We took her on a boat ride at Ranganathittu. I was slightly apprehensive but Sindha managed to convince me it was safe. The kid didn't really notice the difference between the boat and the car, until halfway when she saw that she was being held very close to water. She was fascinated after that, kept staring at the paddles and the way they cut through water.

We covered a total of 343 km yesterday - I still see trucks coming at me.

5 comments:

  1. good u missed the piggy. supposed to be abad omen in our part of the country
    and ur car is like a boat? smooth sailing , lotta space eh? sounds like a good ad for palio

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  2. We could have had roast pork for lunch too, when a pig tried a suicide attack on our car.

    Ha ha ha. You sure it wasn't the vengeance-hungry mamma/papa/oinkle of some pig you had the other day? ;-)

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  3. >>We could have had roast pork for lunch too...

    Expected to see your Obelix userpic!

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  4. I thought that was snakes? At least, I'd think so, judging by all those corny kannada / tamil / hindi movies about "revenge of the naagin"

    Yeah, how come you didn't have your obelix userpic on this one?

    --srs

    ps - Priya is like "oh so cute!!!" about Rachu. We'll certainly have to meet up as I'll be in Bangalore during Jan 15-22 for http://www.sanog.org (try it, you might like it)

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  5. I should be around in Jan, lets meet up.

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