A Ride on the ECR
Yesterday (It was a Sunday) we went on a drive on the ECR till Mahabalipuram. The original plan was to go to Mayajaal for a movie but once we reached mayajaal we dropped the plan and decided to go driving till mahabalipuram.
There were lot of people driving, and almost all of them had a girl sitting behind and hugging them tightly, you see girls are afraid of riding on a bike.(I am sure some day, some one will tease us like this.) I mean......well forget it. And I had koti behind. Wow!!!!!! What a lucky guy I am......ha ha ha.......just kidding....... Anil had his friend i guess his name is reddy, whom he never introduced to me the whole day. But this is how we are, we like roaming like this and it was really great.
Though I was new to driving on the highway, it was great to drive. I suddenly saw the speedometer and then realized that I was going at 80km/hr. That was the first time i had done so. I didn’t even feel that I was going so fast. We were on a pulsar. The bike is awesome; you don’t even feel like you are riding a bike.
Anil was on a splendor, he too was driving fast. With the physical structure of his I never expected him to drive so well, especially after the short stint with his health problems. It was difficult for him to carry his own body weight, but he was driving the bike too good.
On the way we stopped at a so called dhaba, I don’t know what every body has got with anil but the waiter there dropped every thing he was carrying after cleaning a table, on anil. You should see his face then. They served some thing called Butter Chicken Masala, of course with no butter. The egg fried rice was ok with only one egg for a full plate of friend rice. Finally came the bill, which we never ordered for, and had amount for what we had not eaten.
We reached mahabalipuram, where we learnt how people are earning. As soon as you enter mahabalipuram, there are some guys simply sitting on chairs and collecting Rs. 10/- for each vehicle entering the place. Simply sitting and earning. Great. In the same way where ever you park your vehicle Rs. 3/- for parking, I mean not for taking care of it, but just for keeping you vehicle there. Great again. And to visit the world heritage monuments Rs. 10/- per head. I don’t know where all this money goes to.
We bought some so called stone carving for Rs. 25/-. I don’t think they are worth that much amount. But foreigners buy them for more than Rs. 500/- I guess.
We started at 6:00 PM on our way back, I was driving and anil was flying. We didn’t stop anywhere, except for a minute at one place for loo. Koti droped my in Guindy and 7:30 and I reached my home (Ambattur) at 8:30. It took me 2 and a half hour to reach my home from mahabalipuram. And on a normal day it would take me minimum of 1 and a half hour to reach my home from Guindy.
It was a good trip; the best part of it was the ride from chennai to mahabalipuram and back.
Yesterday (It was a Sunday) we went on a drive on the ECR till Mahabalipuram. The original plan was to go to Mayajaal for a movie but once we reached mayajaal we dropped the plan and decided to go driving till mahabalipuram.
There were lot of people driving, and almost all of them had a girl sitting behind and hugging them tightly, you see girls are afraid of riding on a bike.(I am sure some day, some one will tease us like this.) I mean......well forget it. And I had koti behind. Wow!!!!!! What a lucky guy I am......ha ha ha.......just kidding....... Anil had his friend i guess his name is reddy, whom he never introduced to me the whole day. But this is how we are, we like roaming like this and it was really great.
Though I was new to driving on the highway, it was great to drive. I suddenly saw the speedometer and then realized that I was going at 80km/hr. That was the first time i had done so. I didn’t even feel that I was going so fast. We were on a pulsar. The bike is awesome; you don’t even feel like you are riding a bike.
Anil was on a splendor, he too was driving fast. With the physical structure of his I never expected him to drive so well, especially after the short stint with his health problems. It was difficult for him to carry his own body weight, but he was driving the bike too good.
On the way we stopped at a so called dhaba, I don’t know what every body has got with anil but the waiter there dropped every thing he was carrying after cleaning a table, on anil. You should see his face then. They served some thing called Butter Chicken Masala, of course with no butter. The egg fried rice was ok with only one egg for a full plate of friend rice. Finally came the bill, which we never ordered for, and had amount for what we had not eaten.
We reached mahabalipuram, where we learnt how people are earning. As soon as you enter mahabalipuram, there are some guys simply sitting on chairs and collecting Rs. 10/- for each vehicle entering the place. Simply sitting and earning. Great. In the same way where ever you park your vehicle Rs. 3/- for parking, I mean not for taking care of it, but just for keeping you vehicle there. Great again. And to visit the world heritage monuments Rs. 10/- per head. I don’t know where all this money goes to.
We bought some so called stone carving for Rs. 25/-. I don’t think they are worth that much amount. But foreigners buy them for more than Rs. 500/- I guess.
We started at 6:00 PM on our way back, I was driving and anil was flying. We didn’t stop anywhere, except for a minute at one place for loo. Koti droped my in Guindy and 7:30 and I reached my home (Ambattur) at 8:30. It took me 2 and a half hour to reach my home from mahabalipuram. And on a normal day it would take me minimum of 1 and a half hour to reach my home from Guindy.
It was a good trip; the best part of it was the ride from chennai to mahabalipuram and back.
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