Trip to Oooooty

It was Thursday morning and one of ma friend from Chennai DC pinged me asked to call another friend in Chennai. I called him and it seems they are going to ooty and I was asked to join them.
Well Friday was a holiday for them n they started on Thursday evening. I wanna go ooty but how???? I told to myself... “No way I am going by bus” its jus 170 Kms from Mysore and i wanna go in bike. But who is gonna come along with me from Mysore?? The whole day I was just thinking of the Ooty trip and I was confused to core.
Friday as usual I went to office and I asked all ma friends if they are coming with me to Ooty, they had their own plans n said “sorry machi”. I was like a mad guy thinking of jus one thing “how to go to ooty”. Some asked me not to go alone what if the bike gets punctured or some problem happens in bandipur forest or Mudumalai forest … there wont be anyone to help and not safe to stop the bike in that dense forest. I even called ma friend in US and asked me what to do… even told me the same what others told... “Not safe to go alone”, safe in the sense like bike getting repaired. It was around 1.30 PM, Friday and I was still thinking of going or not. It was time to have lunch, and then at around 2.30 ma friends from Chennai called me again as asked me to join them. Well now its time to decide. I took a one rupee coin and tossed it up in the air… if it’s a tail I am going in the bike alone. Lucky me it was a tail. Told bye to ma friends and then started from office. Went home changed ma costume and started to Ooty, filled ma bike tank with fuel on the way. It was 4 PM.

It’s not the first time I am going for a long drive but it’s the first time I am going alone.

I started driving towards bandipur. I know that they won’t allow any vehicles to pass through bandipur after 5.30 or 6, so I had a non stop drive till that point… then was I was driving through the wildlife sanctuary. Saw different kinda monkeys and dears, peacocks were happily passing crossing the road. I dint cross the 30 Km/hr mark and was enjoying the drive. Finally I reached Karnataka Border and entered Tamilnadu. Now its time for me to cross another wildlife sanctuary and this time it’s Mudumalai, a place famous for elephants. The climate was awesome and so was the drive and to ma surprise there was a traffic jam in the forest… well it was small elephant blocking the way and we were asked not to disturb him (the elephant) after some 20 mins the way was clear and I started driving again… now ooty is just 20 Kms away and I need to climb up the hill a path which has 36 hairpin bends…. Believe me it not that easy to drive up the hill and as I moved it was getting chill and ma jerkin was in the bag. I don’t wanna stop the bike so the chillness made the driving worse.

Finally I reached Ooty.

We were 6 of us... Myself, Sethu, Siva, Venky, Thambi (Ravi) and Ashok we had a rocking 2 days in ooty. Queen park Residency was the place where we stayed, ma friend Ashok’s uncle was one of the partner of the place so we had a royal treatment there, roamed all over ooty and was partying big time in the night. 2 days went like 2 mins and it was time for me to leave Ooty. Sunday morning 11 and started back to Mysore… Our beloved President Mr.Kalam is giving a speech in ma campus on Sunday. I don’t wanna miss that so I dint stop anywhere but it took more time than I expected to reach Mysore and reached only at 2.30… and I missed his speech... Sad Na

Finally after a long time got a break from the regular work schedule and made a successful trip to Ooty.

Now its time for GO GOA….