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  • Living on a Houseboat!

    This is about our great experience in the first week of January, our usual gang of four, wanting to try out something new, which none of us did earlier. We started to pen down such thing and damn,…
  • Highway drive in lockdown

    Though I was extremely tensed for the first few hundred kilometres, the car seemed to be stable and crossing a couple of hundred kilometres gave me some confidence. I steadily maintained between 80…
  • Kolkata in a Tata Nano

    Just reached Kolkata from Chennai today, that is 23rd July 2020 and thought of putting up a short update in case it helps anybody contemplating to do a similar trip. Prepare your car well. It should…
  • Road-trip to Konark & Puri

    With no possible chance of another road-trip this year or the next, I thought of re-living my old escapades and penning down my experiences. My friends and I went on a road-trip this January from…
  • Naneghat: The 1st toll naka

    One pass, linked all these cities to the Konkan. Here, the Satavahanas built navigable roads, deployed soldiers for protection and offered rest and water facilities at the pass itself. All this…
  • New Zealand Travelogues

    New Zealand is divided into two islands- North and South- with the capital Wellington neatly straddling the centre. During my time there, I covered whatever was driveable distance from Auckland (which…
  • Drive to Lava, West Bengal

    Lava holds a very special place in my heart, and probably this is the 5th time I am visiting the place, and each and every time I visit I feel like staying here forever. Lava have always welcomed…
  • Drive to Horsley Hills, AP

    After hectic days in office we decided to make a day trip out of Bangalore to one of the nearby locations. More than the trip it took us some time to nail down a place. Horsely hills was shortlisted…
  • Tata Hexa: 1700 km road-trip

    We were back on the road to Salem, and then another suggestion came in, we can head to Yelagiri for the sunset and we all agreed at once, 'never say no to hills'. Not a great place but weather was…
  • Holiday in Disney & Legoland!

    It has been my daughter's wish to visit Disneyland since she was 5! I was to be blamed for this since I used to tell her tales of my escapades in the US. Her watching of all the Disney cartoons only…
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