Long Drive!

It was a weekend and my sis, jeeju and nephew were here in India. I've been thinking of going for a long drive for long but no companions. So i cancelled it once earlier cos of that. Last weekend i was pretty much determined to go on a long drive and get away from this place as its been a real long time i have gone anywhere out.

So i booked a self drive - Ford ikon for unlimited miles... On Friday i called my friends who frequent to Mysore and checked with them if they would be going to Mysore this weekend, and fortunately they were... I left office on Saturday morning and started to drive. I picked up my friends and then soon we hit the Bangalore - Mysore Highway. It was 7:00am when we started on the highway.

The roads were open and i did not hesitate to floor the throttle... As a perfect petrol engine the josh machine (ford ikon) was at 130kph+ without effort and we could hardly realize sitting inside. The early morning drive was just perfect and the sun was just coming up so it was not too hot as well. I had some old college time audio cassettes and the speakers were delivering music to their max.

The drive was amazing and I clocked 170kph in this car. the moment i saw the needle touching 170kph i started to think how difficult is it to break at this speed and just then i applied the breaks and the whole car started to wobble. That was scary to some extent but i did not give up and did not miss any chance to speed and make it to cross 150kph. It was a great feeling. We reached Mysore by 8:45am after taking a 20 minutes break to have b'fast. I was surprised that i could make it to Mysore this fast. WOW!

When i reached there i met my uncle and aunt and after having a nice home cooked b'fast i left to see my sis, jeeju and nephew. I was with them the whole afternoon and it was fun. I was meeting my sis, jeeju and nephew after a 3 yr gap. We spoke for long hours and had a lot of fun. I was in Mysore for more than 2 days and i had a rocking time with them.

It was a Monday morning and i had to come back to Bangalore. I realized that i was alone on the way back. Jeeju warned me not to drive fast and never cross 140kph in this car as it was a hired car and could break down as well. I kept that in mind and started to drive at 12:45pm.

It was pretty Sunny when i started to drive. I got the tyre pressure checked and just before hitting the highway i bought a couple of water bottles and cold drink. I had couple of packs of potato chips in the car already. I hit the Mysore - Bangalore highway at 1:00pm and i was in Bangalore by 2:40pm. I did not take any breaks this time but i did not over speed too. I was going at 150kph and the car was doing amazingly well with the air-con on all the time. It gave me a great satisfaction when i saw the needle crossing 140kph mark and driving at that speed for quiet some time. Also, it was fun to overtake other cars at 140kph and by the time i used to see in the rear view mirror i used to see them way behind and in some cases not there at all.
Well even though i reached Bangalore at 2:40pm i reached home only by 4:30pm. Isnt that crazy.

Bangalore traffic made me mad but with potato chips, music, cold drinks and a great air-con i was sitting cool inside the car without any hurry to go anywhere. I was driving at 20kph now - just 140kph less than what i was driving a few hours back. ha ha ha.

High speed always is thrilling but one has to be Alert one hundred percent all the time especially on Indian roads / highways.
When i was driving at 150kph i could see a kid running and crossing the road. If i was not alert i would have hit him and maybe realized after a mile what happened... It has happened so many times to so many people.

Its not wrong to go fast in a high speeding zone but its very important to keep ourselves very alert all the time.

All in all i had a rocking weekend after a long time and the drive was Simply Awesome!