So here it goes the story of our lonavla ride.
It was a tiring day, We all were devastated. The calender read something dec 2010 or jan 2011.
Five of us, and i assume , we were Jobless then.
As our daily routine we were on our post dinner walk on the roads of pune. It was me , Vrinda , Maitri, and Rahesh. We walked till our all time favorite spot SB Road-Store one(Pantaloons now) and were discussing about how we missed our other friends and how the life has changed ...
Shwet joined us sometime later and we talked till 12 AM like we had nothing else next day.
12:15 AM past, and an unusual thought striked Shwet's mind.
His Dialogue "Guys lets Go on a trip... Trip to lonavla". Obvious questions when , how , blah blah were fired on him.
And he said NOW, Right now, Two bikes , 5 ppl! and we were awestruck
Shwet was ready to take tripsyy :D (Ahh i rem shwet's Apache :D :D )....
and i had my Bittu(Honda Dio).
No one thought much about Hows and whys... aur kya "Hum nikal pade...".
We had to Fill our bikes with fuel,.... Raat k 12:30 baje tanki full and the trip had already begun....
It was one big night... and a beginning of a beautiful trip.
Hurdle 1 was not so far, at the Pune exit where the police had check-post and all of us had already freaked out.
we had stopped half a kilometer before, after having the sight of check-post,
this is one of the scenes that gets me goosebumps, we were on tripscy ,
no other option to get through the terrible Check-post , Rahesh got down and started walking, and we(remaining 4) passed through
the check post like any normal passer by.
Obviously Police asked rahesh "where are you going in the midnight , that too alone by walk, that too on a road like this!"
and he replied "m going to meet a friend". And believe me the police had let him go. LOL
And nothing could stop us, zoooooop.... we were already there, just 60 km, 60 min ride, and we passed amby valley,
some scenic lonavla spots, the awesome road, believe me, it gave me only best of the memories to hold.
Oops did i mention the level of cold? Later that day we got to know lonavla had coldest night ever in so many years, that day.
Only God could save us, there we spotted a hut on a sort-of-hill-top(Around 1:30 Am). The guy had hot bhajjis, tea and some wood for bonfire.
I remember we had very less money left, we took tea and a plate of Bhajji which vanished in no time.
We couldn't afford for bonfire. Ten mins past a gang of friends left the place, leaving back their lit bonfire , for us to enjoy :D
Believe me i feel those Empty pocket days were better. :'(We had so much of talks, pulling each others legs, dunno why Maitri was silent during the bonfire, may she got emotional (hehehe), Some discussion about our future,
and endless talks.....
and it was 4:15 AM already.....
We had to head back to pune, Kick started our vehicles, and we were on our way back, the return took more than 90 mins.
All we had when we were back to pune was, dusty jeans , the talks we had, and every minute i remember the fun we had,
We were blessed with good weather, Company, and i could go on forever.
The best part was everything fell into place.I am so thankful to you guys VRINDA, MAITRI, RAHESH, SHWET.....
All i am left with is Memories!
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