How do you feel about cold weather?
Oh it’s the perfect time for a ride or a drive.
Added, if you choose your destination as a hill station, then you’ll be blown away with the beauty you get to see.
For this very same reason, I always prefer to start my travel early in the morning.
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Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.
Ah the perfect day. It starts with waking up lazy and have a sumptuous non veg breakfast and leave my son at his abacus class so that I can be free for 2 hours.
Those 2 hours are mine. I can go for that long pending test ride that I was planning or come back and fall in my cozy bed and mindlessly play Bullet Echo for those full 2 hours.
Then have an awesome non veg meal and a soul filling milkshake and then wind down till evening.
Then we go for a long drive in car for dinner speaking about random stuff, hearing awesome old songs and have a light veg dinner at a highway restaurant.
And then we come back home late at night to end the day.
In this day, I get to have 2 bike rides + test ride, 2 long drives in car and 3 awesome meals.
This is a mix of my Saturdays and Sundays and if I could get both in a single day, then that’s my perfect day😇.
Good day to you🫡.
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?
What a beautiful topic to write about.
I call this, phases of life.
The way we see life differs with age and time.
The family member whom I loved the most, is no longer the same. The family member whom I hated the most, is the one who is helping us. My mother just passed away last year mid.
All these things will happen then and there in your life which will make you question your perspective about that.
The outcome of this is wisdom, that helps you keep moving in life💪🏼.
Good day to you🫡.
Think back on your most memorable road trip.
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TLDR: My valparai-athirapilly-munnar ride that I had back in 2016 is my memorable ride so far though I had a very recent kick ass experience couple of weeks back in the same route. Have attached some photos from the trip.
It was 2016 and I had just started riding. Me and my riding friends were planning for a week long ride as almost everyone were single without any commitments like kids that time.
Unfortunately it was me and another rider who is also my mentor who got the leaves and opening for the ride.
So the ride was planned and we had Valparai-Athirapilly-Munnar as plan A and coorg as plan B.
The plan was 4 days of riding and 1 full day for resting.
So we started on Friday evening, as usual, and reached my mentor’s hometown which is 350km away.
Next day morning we understood it was monsoon time around Kerala and we were doubtful and so we checked coorg and guess what, it was raining there as well😅.
Being the young lads that we are, we understood that irrespective of the route we take, our undies are gonna get wet🤣.
As we had booked rooms in Munnar already we decided to stick to the plan.
We packed lunch from his dad and started our trip officially.
Boy oh boy little did we know that it’s gonna be a memorable trip at that time.
Had been to Valparai before, but along with family and not much scope for adventure.
On entering Valparai itself it felt like heaven.
Am really thankful even now that I decided to stop for this pic eventhough it was just about to rain and we were in a hurry.
We reached, and found we had 2-3h in hand before it gets dark.
So we visited some nearby attractions and then came back and rested for the night.
Next day early morning we started to Munnar and plan was to visit Athirapilly waterfalls on the way.
It was a hectic ride and while reaching Athirapilly we were all sweaty and stinky.
Thanks to the bath that we had in the falls we felt all rejuvenated and pumped up.
The entire ride was via a forest with not so good roads and now am surprised that I had done that with having such a heavy bike and tube tyres.
Won’t be doing such things now though😌.
The ride through Kerala was vibrant and you can see that in the below pic.
Reached Munnar late in the evening and hence we decided to rest and start exploring the next day.
Next day we explored Munnar and started back to his home town the next day.
On the way back unfortunately i had a fall due to an oil spill.
I didn’t have protection for my lower body back then so I had a scratch on my right knee.
Had first aid kit so used that and continued the ride but it was definitely painfull.
The next 10 days were painful enough to remind me about the incident and so I decided to buy a riding pant with good protection.
Overall, this ride taught me a lot of things, showed me a lot of beautiful things, some, eventhough I had already seen but gave a new perspective to them.
Couple of weeks back I zipped through this same route in my cbr 250r having thorough fun in the corners but still, the adventure I had for the 1st time in my thunderbird is unmatched♥️.
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Are you more of a night or morning person?
Definitely a morning person.
During my bike rides I usually start around 4am and love to see all the beauty that nature is hiding when everyone’s asleep😍.
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What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?
I generally love December and January as it’s winter time.
During this time you can plan your travel anywhere and you won’t get disappointed as winter adds an extra touch of beauty on all the places.
Not to mention, bike rides are even more fun in cold weather😃.
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You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?
Bikes, anyday.
All modes of transport can help you with a cross country trip. But a bike only can make memories.
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What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
Rejection:
When I proposed to the same girl twice in a gap of 3 years she didn’t accept me both the times.
I performed well in my 1st interview in college, even then i didn’t get selected when almost the whole of my class was selected in the interview
Rejection really teaches you a lot. What to expect, what not to expect, how to be and how not to be.
Finance and passion:
Having a passion is mandatory. It provides your life a purpose and gives you a pivot whenever you feel low.
When your passion becomes your hobby and when you need more money to elevate to the next level and when you don’t have that, you understand where you stand in your life financially.
Then you look up from the darkness and see that small light which is your passion and you start to climb.
Good day to you🫡.
What are three objects you couldn’t live without?
Phone:
It’s an obvious answer. In this digital world a phone is not just an object but a part of you. I do more on that daily be it transactions, work related and also enjoyment and even hobbies like wordpress.
Bike:
I love to travel and especially on my bike. I ride professionally with all the riding gears and have been riding since 2015 and more than 60k km and counting.
Workstation:
Whenever i work or learn something new or type my posts on wordpress I do it in my workstation (My desk and executive chair plus my 24″ monitor). Not only they provide comfort but also it behaves a small world of mine where am productive.
Good day to you🫡.