Saturday, January 31, 2009

Solitary Rider: A bike trip to Bidar

To begin with



A three day weekend and I was alone. So first day went peacefully but by the evening I again started getting that particular itch – to go somewhere taking my tanhai and bike with me. So by the time I slept I was more or less decided on a bidar trip with soft copy of map etc in newly got N96. Left early in the morning at around 6 a.m. after taking out some cash from the axis bank (near BHEL) and just kept on going straight non-stop with continuous music into my ears. (At this moment I realize I need to create proper playlist in N96). With one stop for pics, I reached Bidar in less than 2.5 hours. Till 1 p.m. I was roaming in the city seeing different places like temples (the one with water & other Shivji), fort, gurudwara et al. The only thing I regret was that the fort was closed due to some Bidar Mela so couldn’t take lot of pics. And this time I realized one problem with travelling alone – you don’t have your own pics clicked. So, you have to remain contented with clicking the beautiful surroundings. In a way I feel this is also a blessing in disguise – you can concentrate more on clicking good pictures without human beings crowding the pic – may be this improves my photography down the line.
Finally, I just can say one thing why the hell I didn’t buy a bike in Bangalore… it could have been an awesome experience there.