LoNg dRiVe !!! ePiSoDe I

First things first... I HATE PPL WHO DRIVE THEIR VEHICLES IN HIGH BEAM !!! Simbly hate them !!!! They are so much pain in the eyes and on the throat coz everytime i come across some bugger like this i tend to scream and shout and feel like throwing about 1 million stones at his headlights...

Today i am at ease with myself.. i am a li'il more content... why... you will get to know !!!! read on....

Ok.. back to what happened today... got up at 0430 hrs.. and mom insisted that i should sleep for another 30 minutes coz i had to drive the entire day...actually i was not planning to take a bath in the morning...i had slept at 2330 hrs yesterday after a warm bath only !!! but this was my first opportunity to take my radha for a long drive !!! so i finally got too restless and got out of the beautiful warm bed around 0445 hrs... got ready in another 30 odd minutes i guess... now do not ask me what i did in those 30 minutes...:) ok... and then out of my house... cleaning the red beauty and making in shine like a queen... we finally managed to leave at 0611 hours... me, ma, pa, mamaji and my cousin honey !!! listening to the beautiful voice of lata ji..."thumak chalat ram chandra, baajat painjaniya"... good first hour... i drove 36 kms in the first 40 minutes and then another 30 in the next 20... so when i looked at ma tripometer at 0712 hrs it was reading 66 kms... no bad :) and this was the time to give my car a test.. and see how it figures at a three digit mark... i was really not keen on letting papa see the speedometer.. and that is why mamaji was asked to take the co-drivers seat... so.. another 10 minutes and radha was moving at 100 kmph in all its glory... what a feeling... very stable... noiseless... feeling of security... and control... and Hari Om Sharan singing " Shri Hanuman Chalisa"... I guess the car was getting insprired from song and flying on the road... but after about 15 overtakes.. and early morning slow moving traffic i managed to drive only another 65 kms in the next one hour... had to stop at toll plaza as well and then a traffic jam (which ate about 20 odd minutes) when we were moving back in to Uttar Pradesh from Haryana...

Ok this is interesting too...We moved from UP (NOIDA) to Delhi to Haryana (Faridabad, Ballabhgarh, Palwal, Hodal etc.) to UP again ( Kosi, Mathura, Agra, Govardhan)....

Ok.. back to the border...after some good speeding up and a few more overtakes on the beautiful road... we readed Taj Mahal's Parking at 0915 hrs a total of 204 kms in about 3 hours.. not bad...
Had some good tea there ... with my dad giving the Chai Wala some very good tips on how to make tea.. and the chai wala made some really good tea there.. lotsa milk... less of sugar...more of chai patti.. good good adrak !!! and there it was... a good refreshing cuppa tea in a good sunny winter morning... we chose not to take a vehicle to the Taj Mahal but walk.. and finally reached there in about 10 odd minutes... One thing work talking about here.. the As#&%E attendent in the parking there said.. Sir main aapki Indica dho doon... ekdum chamka dunga.. I can't tell you how pissed how was.. that Son of a Gun called my Palio an Indica !!! though i wanted the car to be cleaned but i was forced to change my mind thanks to this comment from that Man of God !!!

Ok... so inside the Taj Mahal's premises.. enjoyed some good 2 hours in the sun there !!! and my dad really helped himself out with the camera and we managed to take about 22 fotos there... also ma and pa got two snaps clicked by one of the professional fotografers there... good fotos they are.. he clicked them and managed to give us the prints and the negatives in about 60 minutes...
Can't tell you how Jealous and envious i get when i see all those foreigners with the kinda cameras they carry... Cannon, Fuji, Sony, Minolta, SLRs, Digicams, Digital SLRs... you name it you can see it there... anyway... i know i will have something of that sort sometime very soon... so we finally move out of there after enjoying a good foto session and a good walk in the sun... and then we have food at a very very local dhaba there.. where we had lotsa food... excellent dal fry.. good fresh rotis...masta achaar... tasty mix veg... awefully expensive Malai Kofta :).... we had a good tummy full of food there around noon... 1200 hrs and then moved out.. now the question... where to go... do we go to vrindawan... or to mathura or to dayalbagh or govardhan...

pa wanted to go to radha kund.. as the last time we went for parikrama we were walking in the night and we could not check out the excellent architecture and relegious values of Mansi Ganga, Radha Kund, Suman Sarovar ( Dau Ji ka Mandir)... we spent the rest of the photo roll there and i for the first time saw monkeys enjoying the sun on the roof of my car... dunno it was the colour of the car that attracted them or what.. but still there were at one time 4 monkeys enjoying themself on the roof of my car when we were walking around the sumar sarovar... from there went to Radha Kund... heard the story behind it... then we had lotsa of Ganne ka ras.. fresh and cool.. with lemon and ginger and mint... Mazaa aa Gaya !!!!

Now we finally head back towards home.. cancelling the idea of going to brindavan... bye bye rabri, bye bye khurchan, bye bye tikki, bye bye lassi, am i missing these eatables or what.. anyway.. we plan to be back to vrindavan sometime soon again... by the way.. do you know why vrindavan is called by this name... this place once used to be a forest of Tulsi ( not the saas bahu wali tulsi but the real sacred plant of Hindus) and Tusli is also called Vrinda... hence Vrinda-Van :)

and after driving in the traffic... overtaking at least 50 vehicles.. my speedometer making me feel good at 115 kmph at times...i reached home at 1925 hrs... what a good trip it was... tired but not really tired... car thori gandi ho gayi hai... now waiting for tmrw morning when the car wala guy comes in and cleans it in the morning... he would have a some good work to do...

This is where my episode I of the long drive happens... lets see when i get to go on the episode II....

another long drive...
another post...
another satisfying day !!!

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