Bike Trippin’
All he did was think about how they were going to get to Kharghar as he sat on his crotch rocket with a blank expression on his face - lost in thought - plotting a course waiting for Sunshine to arrive. Outkast was totally pepped up for this ride as he had never done anything like this before. His wait was short lived as Sunshine arrived sooner than expected. “Shall we?” he said to Sunshine while she put on her little beanie cap and made herself comfy on the bike. “Yes, we shall!”
And so they embarked upon their amazing trip to Lonavala 13th April 2007 to 15th April 2007, one not likely to be forgotten so easily by all those who made the trip a reality.
As the journey commenced Sunshine called up a buddy Momas since it was his birthday to wish him and ask him whether they could go over to his crib. Outkast and Sunshine were supposed to trail along with two other friends, Premooty and Gyaani Baba but them guys were gonna get off late from work. They trailed all the way from Bandra 13th Friday in the evening laughing and playing re-defined antakshari. Re-defined antakshari was nothing but Sunshine singing Hindi songs while Outkast sang only English songs. They made it to Nerul railway station in real good time. Another call to Momas was made and instead of getting directions to his crib they got directions to an eatery called Indian Spice somewhere in Sector 4. They reached Indian Spice after probably visiting all the places surrounding the restaurant and waited for Momas and his wife Judith to arrive. Time flew by and eventually they get a call asking Outkast and Sunshine to head over to another restaurant at C.B.D. Belapur. Once again Outkast and Sunshine journeyed on towards their new destination with Outkast pondering whether Lonavala was going to happen that night itself. The wait at the restaurant at C.B.D. Belapur was even longer than the previous wait and poor Sunshine was famished. Outkast and Sunshine were about to waltz in and get themselves some refreshments when Sunshine’s eye caught Momas on the other side of the road. The ride along with Momas gave the antakshari session a break while Outkast and Sunshine sang “The Happy Birthday” song to Momas. While at Momas’ crib, Jane called up to find out about our whereabouts. Sunshine filled her in on the details, that being, the wait at Momas’ crib was for a quick dinner (which apparently turned out to be really long as dinner arrived about an hour after we did) and a pitstop for 2 other contenders for the ride – Gyaani Baba and Premooty. During the wait Outkast pulled out his cell phone and introduce Judith and Momas to the wonderful world of “The Family Guy”. The couple were quite interested and took a fondness to the episode on Outkast’ cellular. Nevertheless the sequence of events did unfold as chalked but it just took way too long. The other two contenders arrive and then there was a chat session with drinks and smokes. Gyaani Baba tried to work his charm of swindling Momas into taggin along with us to Lonavala but alas, all his efforts proved futile as a single look from Judith coupled with a few sentences decimated all of Gyaani Baba’s work. As the night unfolded, continuing with the trip started to look weary. The decision to continue or not was being debated upon. Then in one sheer moment of indecisiveness a resolution to continue was passed and Gyaani Baba, Sunshine, Outkast and Premooty along with his beer held tight and still 2/3rd remaining departed for Lonavala.
Riding in the darkness with just their headlights revealing the road, our riders tread onwards into the dark abyss. It was not before long where the booze in Gyaani Baba’ and Premooty’s system wanted out. A quick pit stop to relive themselves along with a smoke was all they required to get their groove back on the road. The weather got cooler and the ride got a lot more interesting when the Ghats approached. The weather got to Gyaani Baba as he took off with his crotch rocket and whizzed away leaving Premooty and Outkast along with Sunshine cruising far behind him. Premooty, Outkast and Sunshine did make a stop before they could descend the ghats. Why? Because of what they saw before them. Up on them ghats they saw what most of us see in movies. An entire town completely lit amidst the darkness that surrounded our riders. It was breath-takingly surreal.
Down the ghats and into Lonavala our riders stretched onwards as their destination was fast approaching. Gyaani Baba was unclear about the location of the place where Tarzan and Jane were at. Sunshine did try to voice her directions but it fell on deaf ears. Eventually after a 15 min search and a last resort phone call to Jane, they found the place. It was so late in the night that our riders had to jump over the fencing to get to Tarzan and Jane. They decided to relax for a bit before they could all hit the sack but apparently the lil bit resulted into an amazing and hilarious chat session which lasted right through the wee-hours of the night into dawn. Tarzan and Jane hit the sack whilst our riders discussed various issues about the ride with some soft Hindi music as BGM. Everyone hit the sack early next morning.
The next day as the sun came out, so did Jane, Tarzan and Sunshine. Outkast, Gyaani Baba and Premooty were sloshed and decided to wake up later on as their bodies finally got the well deserved rest they required. When everyone was up, which was something close to lunchtime they all decided to have some tea. A few vada-pav’s, some omlettes and cutting chai was for breakfast. All of them just lazed around playing rummy and listening to English music for sometime and then decided to head out for lunch. None of the guys were feeling hungry but the girls had an appetite which needed to be satisfied. A decision to beat the heat with ice-cream was arrived at and with that in mind they all ventured out. Enjoying their popsicles the women’s eyes fell on some clothing and they abandoned the men. Shopping never appealed to the guys and so they decided to go sit at a restaurant and order some grub. The women joined them later and lunch happened with alotta laughs and wise-crack by both sexes. After lunch they all headed back to the crib to decide on where they should all go in the evening. Tarzan, Jane and Outkast hit the sack after the meal while Sunshine, Gyaani Baba and Premooty were in the hall conversing. Evening saw some pretty nasty change in plans. Tarzan and Jane had to leave as Tarzan had work to attend to and Jane chose to follow suite along with him. The other’s felt kinda weird being there with just themselves minus the fleeing couple’s presence and tried to convince them to stay back – but alas they decided to leave and it was with a sigh of sorrow that Gyaani Baba, Premooty, Sunshine and Outkast bid farewell to Tarzan and Jane. The evening was still young and plans to go biking were all set. Before they could embark on their journey unknown a pitstop was made to fill their growling tummies before the ride. A nice long ride was made away from Lonavala toward Pune with thoughts about whether they should actually make their way to Pune on their minds. They rode far into the abyss and stopped before a few ghats to head back to Lonavala. Gyaani Baba’s eyes fell on a path that one usually sees in movies and they decided to go for a walk. The path had eucalyptus trees growing on either side and alotta dried leaves on the path between. They decided to pick up some leaves and burn them at home to relieve the crib of mosquitoes. They headed back to Lonavala and walked around the market pondering on whether they should have dinner or just thrive on junk food. The second option won their votes and they strolled around having juices and chaat. Premooty got him some drinks and then they all went back to the crib for a quick pit stop. Lazing around with a few cigi’s and booze Premooty felt that another late night ride was not logical as we would require the rest for the ride back to Bombay the next day. Gyaani Baba and Outkast put their foot down and in his mouth and dragged him for the ride irrespective of his status – that being drunk or sober. This last ride towards a dhaba for grub was the icing on the cake. By far nothing else in the entire trip amounted to the satisfaction each of them received dining at the dhaba close to mid-night. The food they ate that night was something words would never be able to describe – it was that deliciously satisfying. Serving them in the traditional dhaba style cot, outside in the parking lot under the night sky was just perfect to the last detail. These memories will surely not be forgotten by any of them easily. After that session they all head back to the crib to get some rest but alas, the last night proved to be a sleepless night for each of them. The eucalyptus leaves that were burnt prior to their last night ride did an amazing job of – not driving out but instead welcoming the mosquitoes.
All up and ready to depart Gyaani Baba took some amazing footage of the early morning ambience outside the cribs balcony whilst the rest of the yet sleepy lot staggered to their feet. Each of them wishing that the night could have lasted a little longer. All up and ready they got themselves some tea and then bid goodbye to Lonavala. The ride back to Bombay was quite relaxed and fast. All the way back they each reminisced the best parts of the trip and hoped that a trip like this would be not be a thing of the past.
And so they embarked upon their amazing trip to Lonavala 13th April 2007 to 15th April 2007, one not likely to be forgotten so easily by all those who made the trip a reality.
As the journey commenced Sunshine called up a buddy Momas since it was his birthday to wish him and ask him whether they could go over to his crib. Outkast and Sunshine were supposed to trail along with two other friends, Premooty and Gyaani Baba but them guys were gonna get off late from work. They trailed all the way from Bandra 13th Friday in the evening laughing and playing re-defined antakshari. Re-defined antakshari was nothing but Sunshine singing Hindi songs while Outkast sang only English songs. They made it to Nerul railway station in real good time. Another call to Momas was made and instead of getting directions to his crib they got directions to an eatery called Indian Spice somewhere in Sector 4. They reached Indian Spice after probably visiting all the places surrounding the restaurant and waited for Momas and his wife Judith to arrive. Time flew by and eventually they get a call asking Outkast and Sunshine to head over to another restaurant at C.B.D. Belapur. Once again Outkast and Sunshine journeyed on towards their new destination with Outkast pondering whether Lonavala was going to happen that night itself. The wait at the restaurant at C.B.D. Belapur was even longer than the previous wait and poor Sunshine was famished. Outkast and Sunshine were about to waltz in and get themselves some refreshments when Sunshine’s eye caught Momas on the other side of the road. The ride along with Momas gave the antakshari session a break while Outkast and Sunshine sang “The Happy Birthday” song to Momas. While at Momas’ crib, Jane called up to find out about our whereabouts. Sunshine filled her in on the details, that being, the wait at Momas’ crib was for a quick dinner (which apparently turned out to be really long as dinner arrived about an hour after we did) and a pitstop for 2 other contenders for the ride – Gyaani Baba and Premooty. During the wait Outkast pulled out his cell phone and introduce Judith and Momas to the wonderful world of “The Family Guy”. The couple were quite interested and took a fondness to the episode on Outkast’ cellular. Nevertheless the sequence of events did unfold as chalked but it just took way too long. The other two contenders arrive and then there was a chat session with drinks and smokes. Gyaani Baba tried to work his charm of swindling Momas into taggin along with us to Lonavala but alas, all his efforts proved futile as a single look from Judith coupled with a few sentences decimated all of Gyaani Baba’s work. As the night unfolded, continuing with the trip started to look weary. The decision to continue or not was being debated upon. Then in one sheer moment of indecisiveness a resolution to continue was passed and Gyaani Baba, Sunshine, Outkast and Premooty along with his beer held tight and still 2/3rd remaining departed for Lonavala.
Riding in the darkness with just their headlights revealing the road, our riders tread onwards into the dark abyss. It was not before long where the booze in Gyaani Baba’ and Premooty’s system wanted out. A quick pit stop to relive themselves along with a smoke was all they required to get their groove back on the road. The weather got cooler and the ride got a lot more interesting when the Ghats approached. The weather got to Gyaani Baba as he took off with his crotch rocket and whizzed away leaving Premooty and Outkast along with Sunshine cruising far behind him. Premooty, Outkast and Sunshine did make a stop before they could descend the ghats. Why? Because of what they saw before them. Up on them ghats they saw what most of us see in movies. An entire town completely lit amidst the darkness that surrounded our riders. It was breath-takingly surreal.
Down the ghats and into Lonavala our riders stretched onwards as their destination was fast approaching. Gyaani Baba was unclear about the location of the place where Tarzan and Jane were at. Sunshine did try to voice her directions but it fell on deaf ears. Eventually after a 15 min search and a last resort phone call to Jane, they found the place. It was so late in the night that our riders had to jump over the fencing to get to Tarzan and Jane. They decided to relax for a bit before they could all hit the sack but apparently the lil bit resulted into an amazing and hilarious chat session which lasted right through the wee-hours of the night into dawn. Tarzan and Jane hit the sack whilst our riders discussed various issues about the ride with some soft Hindi music as BGM. Everyone hit the sack early next morning.
The next day as the sun came out, so did Jane, Tarzan and Sunshine. Outkast, Gyaani Baba and Premooty were sloshed and decided to wake up later on as their bodies finally got the well deserved rest they required. When everyone was up, which was something close to lunchtime they all decided to have some tea. A few vada-pav’s, some omlettes and cutting chai was for breakfast. All of them just lazed around playing rummy and listening to English music for sometime and then decided to head out for lunch. None of the guys were feeling hungry but the girls had an appetite which needed to be satisfied. A decision to beat the heat with ice-cream was arrived at and with that in mind they all ventured out. Enjoying their popsicles the women’s eyes fell on some clothing and they abandoned the men. Shopping never appealed to the guys and so they decided to go sit at a restaurant and order some grub. The women joined them later and lunch happened with alotta laughs and wise-crack by both sexes. After lunch they all headed back to the crib to decide on where they should all go in the evening. Tarzan, Jane and Outkast hit the sack after the meal while Sunshine, Gyaani Baba and Premooty were in the hall conversing. Evening saw some pretty nasty change in plans. Tarzan and Jane had to leave as Tarzan had work to attend to and Jane chose to follow suite along with him. The other’s felt kinda weird being there with just themselves minus the fleeing couple’s presence and tried to convince them to stay back – but alas they decided to leave and it was with a sigh of sorrow that Gyaani Baba, Premooty, Sunshine and Outkast bid farewell to Tarzan and Jane. The evening was still young and plans to go biking were all set. Before they could embark on their journey unknown a pitstop was made to fill their growling tummies before the ride. A nice long ride was made away from Lonavala toward Pune with thoughts about whether they should actually make their way to Pune on their minds. They rode far into the abyss and stopped before a few ghats to head back to Lonavala. Gyaani Baba’s eyes fell on a path that one usually sees in movies and they decided to go for a walk. The path had eucalyptus trees growing on either side and alotta dried leaves on the path between. They decided to pick up some leaves and burn them at home to relieve the crib of mosquitoes. They headed back to Lonavala and walked around the market pondering on whether they should have dinner or just thrive on junk food. The second option won their votes and they strolled around having juices and chaat. Premooty got him some drinks and then they all went back to the crib for a quick pit stop. Lazing around with a few cigi’s and booze Premooty felt that another late night ride was not logical as we would require the rest for the ride back to Bombay the next day. Gyaani Baba and Outkast put their foot down and in his mouth and dragged him for the ride irrespective of his status – that being drunk or sober. This last ride towards a dhaba for grub was the icing on the cake. By far nothing else in the entire trip amounted to the satisfaction each of them received dining at the dhaba close to mid-night. The food they ate that night was something words would never be able to describe – it was that deliciously satisfying. Serving them in the traditional dhaba style cot, outside in the parking lot under the night sky was just perfect to the last detail. These memories will surely not be forgotten by any of them easily. After that session they all head back to the crib to get some rest but alas, the last night proved to be a sleepless night for each of them. The eucalyptus leaves that were burnt prior to their last night ride did an amazing job of – not driving out but instead welcoming the mosquitoes.
All up and ready to depart Gyaani Baba took some amazing footage of the early morning ambience outside the cribs balcony whilst the rest of the yet sleepy lot staggered to their feet. Each of them wishing that the night could have lasted a little longer. All up and ready they got themselves some tea and then bid goodbye to Lonavala. The ride back to Bombay was quite relaxed and fast. All the way back they each reminisced the best parts of the trip and hoped that a trip like this would be not be a thing of the past.
