GodS In The Wilds

Chennai God Meet Hyderabad God and again yet another history created-- "GodS In The Wilds"

Story began with my welcome on chennai community by God of chennai, many plan crumbled and at last one got a layout completed , last night i recieved an sms saying
"ALL Hail to Godhood! The Chennai Gods- Arooran,Prashant , harry and sandy with the god from the land of nawab-Saurabh, are gearing up once again after a long time to hot the road on nh 5. tada trip is finally happenning, Starting sharp at 7am at koyembedu CMBT chennai" It shocked me , and the end result was i have skipped the plan of sleeping the whole night spent time watching some of the greatest movies like "In to the Wilds" and "Charlie Wilson's War".

I started from my place around 5:30am , waited for 30mins for cab, then after sitting into cab came to know that only me and sandy are the left gods now in ride, harry same not lifting the call at last movement, others informed sandy earlier.
Reached Vadapalani at 7:00 exact , waited for sandy till 7:30am , at when we meet to gods got united to hit road started to cross the muddy chennai traffic. Sandy driving wild , wilder and wildest...crossing between two trucks , taking deep turns...and lot more...constant at 80 reached andhra boarder around in 40 mins...stopped had some pics...and again moved forward...pulicat lake cold breeze kept us alive in that hot sun at NH5...reached tada at about in a 1:30 hrs.
Now the Game began, started with one one peg of Signature...at the verst place of my life...got in to the road that leads to the ubbalamadugu Waterfalls

...at entrance stoopped for tickets 20 each and 50 for camera and 20 for parking, now the road which leads sandy baby it to the worst experience it ever had ... sandy fall down in sand , fighted the rocks to reach parking lot...
After reaching we had all pains right in the starting of trip ... started with a hope to reach mountain top, with no treeking gears and no bags also...carrying water bottles and snacks in plastic bags...reached first stop and met a group called "sa chennai trekking club"...Peter was the leader of group...from belgium now in chennai from past 10 years...working as a project manager in cisco...
We walked the way to the first natural swiming pool discussing about his trips and our grp plans and trips...
Seeing the water we could specialy i could not wait at all jumped...swimmed ..divied...after enjoying and getting wet completely again started to wards the top...after a distance of 2kms i realized we were moving towards bottom of mountain with straight stretch...asked sandy what we will get by doing this...started with again a hope of getting some supper atom bomb at last...falling down many time on sleepery rocks...climbing difficult straight streches...and at last that atom bomb busted and reached the most clear natural swiming pool at last...jumped with out waiting...but was feering to go till last as not knowing the depth ..once peter came we crossed till end and in middle got a big rok which was like a pit stop in F1 RACE....then peter decided to bring all guys/girls to that place by building rope of shirts...it was horrible people meeirly able to swim was trying to cross some drowmed almost mee peter sandy and a other guy of grp was helping this to happen and at last they all are able to cross...the depth and return back safely...
Affter that the return path started and i was almost leading the grp again to back , again crossing some difficult streches which can broke legs/head if not taken seriously...we reached back at 5:00pm ..it was evening..and me and samdy without food was dying for bear and food...so without wasting time started fast by saying by to the group...got fosters chilled on the way had it...got a punjabi dhaba...had a chilled chicken with hot tawa roti and fosters...
Then rested in khatias at dhaba till 7:00pm and started back to home journey now it was my turn to drive till chennai...1hr-60km reached chennai by 8:00pm...and then the werst part was the return journey from chennai to mcity my residence at chennai...took 3 hrs for 55kms by gov. bus. reached 11pm and slept till next day 11am....:-)
"Avenger Rules"

VIZAG RIDE - 22nd MARCH

With the ride planed and the members confirmed (6) I had a feeling it wud be fun with these many members. But as the D day arrived, Pramod and me where the only one’s ready to hit the highway. We decided to do the ride inspite of others asking us to stay back or make a shorter ride. We didn’t wanna deter from this just because some people had some priorities and didn’t come (no offence guys).

4:15 Paradise was where the ride started. It was bit cloudy and we were just hoping it doesn’t pour down on us. As we crusied along, the truck wala’s as usual made several attempts to run us down or blind us with the high beam. Luckily we took shelter behind a Qualis and then shifted to a Aveo (quails was too slow) to guide us until it dawned. With the first light we made our first pit stop and breakfast and tea and where back on the road. We reached Vijayawada pretty soon comparatively (10:00AM). It was supposedly our second pit stop but as we were going well we decided to keep on going and take a break only when we felt really tired. We were quite sure with the kind of smooth road from Vijayawada to Vizag we wud reach the place much early than we had anticipated. But the nature had different plans. The moment we crossed Vijayawada it started pouring and we had to rush to a rice mill for shelter. It was 11:00am now and we waited there for an hour or so before the rain became drizzle and we decided to venture out again. Hardly driving for another half hour that it again started pouring and we were now in a reliance petrol station asking for details for food and shelter. The attendant informed us that around 40kms there was a A1 plaza. So as soon as the rain halted we again set up determined to reach the A1 place and take a good break. And it happened again, and again, and again. The moment we started the rain also seemed to take a cue to start. After N number of attempts and being completely drenched to core in rain we reached a place which the attendant had termed as A1 plaza, in actual was a just a Dhabha next to the reliance petrol station. Resting there for a while and finishing our lunch we decided to proceed further as the dhabha was stinky. And as usual the rain followed us. Now things were out of control and never had felt so wet!!! We found a bus stand after a while and then took shelter there and dried our stuff. And whoa….the SUN shone and everything suddenly changed. We headed out again and the view was awesome. The fields looked greener than green after the rain and the breeze from the field was too much to refrain from changing profession and start singing JAI JAWAN, JAI KISAN.

We took a diversion from yelamanchili, a short cut to go to the NTPC guest house (17 kms from vizag) the place where we would be staying. The route took by winding roads through several villages will hills all over. Switching off the headlights of our bikes and riding our bikes in the dark with the moon overhead was one hellava experience. We reached the guest house and checked in to a decent A/C room. After having dinner at ICH (Indian Coffee House) we retired for the night praying that the next day brings some sunshine to the city.

The next day luckily for us was bit sunny and we decided to explore a beach around 10kms from where we were staying. Equipped with the swimming trunks and towels we hit the beach. It was good beach populated with only the fishermen and no tourist as such. After some fun time in the water playing diving catches with a makeshift cricket ball, we met up with some kids of the clove nearby who kept on questioning us about our bikes and selves. Once through with that we went back to our rooms for a shower and then some lunch. Now we were ready to hit the city. We zoomed our way through the city to Rishikonda for a round of drinks at a resort there. It was right on the cliff, with the sea beside and a beautiful evening coming in. after couple of beers we went to the RK beach area with a packet of Mirchi Bajji;s to compliment the evening. Well vizag has changed quite a bit for a period. The crowd was huge, with parking almost next to impossible and the place reminded me of necklace road on Sunday or marina beach in Chennai. Jam Packet I guess would be the correct word to spell the same. Having spent some time out these we drove back to the guest house (40kms) for the nightcap.

We had planned for Aruku, Ananthagiri Hills and Paderu for day 3, but the rains unleashed on the city of ports in the morning, making us cancel the plan. We were left in the room browsing though the stupid box (TV). We decided to make the best use of the situation and caught up on some table tennis and caroms at the recreation room. Once done with that we went to a pump house of the company where water is taken from the sea and refined and used for the turbines for electricity generation. After some high level permissions the security allowed us inside and we had a good view of the sea from the pump house. We then spent some time near the place clicking away to glory the sea when rain was hitting it hard. Soon the rain turned to a drizzle and as soon as the drizzle faded away we went back to our room. Changing quickly we decided to head to the city malls to buy proper rain coats for our return journey as the jerkins we had hardly were good enough to provide any safety from the rain. We didn’t take our bikes for the fear of rain and us getting soaked again, for the fear of losing the last set of dry clothes. We did our bit of shopping and then returned back to the room and headed straight for the recreation room this time to catch up on a snooker game. Done with that we had dinner and planned to start back to Hyderabad early next day.

We started 4:30am in the morning and it was quite a while until light appeared, though we were thankful that it was not raining. The ride till Vijayawada went off pretty smooth and we covered lot many kms with minimal breaks. We just didn’t wanna risk in waiting and allowing the rain to catch up with us. Infact from Vijayawada until surayapet we were literally stretching ourselves to the extremes. We took our lunch break at the AP tourism plaza and a deserved rest to our behinds. And then were back on the saddles to hyderabad. We reached home sweet home in exactly 12 hrs from the time we started and 1402 kms in total both ways felt as an acheivement. Looking back at the ride, we did have a feeling of missing the group, but at the same loved each and every moment of the ride from the start to end. Looking forward to crossing bigger distances and hurdles.

New Ride Happy New Year RIDE 30TH DEC 2007

Again a year has ended again dream had taked forms and again dream had started for new year............A ride to end new year happily....on 30th dec 2007 6 am sharp....to siddipet extended on time avaialibilty to karimnagar to touch godavri...river

Rider: Pawan Pramod Saurabh Mubeen Raghu Bhargav Sulabh Sameer + New guys.....welcome.....

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First ever Inter-State Meet..(By Veeru a.k.a. Raghu bhai...)

well....have been planning to write this for past few days....The tour began early morning for us from hyd and as we were hardly 50kms away that the chill forced us for a pit stop....after some good chai....we were back....and the roads from Nalagonda were superb....with few potholes to be pardoned....we reached first at the meeting place and then finalised a place to stay....a ok kinda resort next next door to the beach....and the chennai gods along with the kerala monster(hehehee kiddin ninja) came along....and then the fun started.....we had a blast in the beach....and then freshened up and went to the town of chirala to get the Vitamin B(Beers) and liqour for others.....we had a bonfire right on the beach and we had a toast to the great meet(non-alocholic red grapes champan)....and then the beer poured in.....few pics....loads of topics discussed under the bright sky lit up with stars and half moon.....and then we hit he sack.....early morining i woke up to see pramod and sandy already covering the sunrise and had taken quite num of pics....joined them and soon ninja came in....and slowly the others poured in......at then followed the wonderful photo sessions.....racing across the beach....and then again loads of pics.......and then freshen up and then a issue of ninja losing his keys and we trying to control to his anger......and then drove to bapatla....good we didnt stay there...the whole place was damn crowded.....but the highlight being any place we went our BIKES were the kinda of talk of town.....by the time we returned it was 10pm....with beautiful memories and friends for life we had a real good sleep and the first inter state meet was a roaring success....