A Cherished Trip(Last Part-Three)

It was actually decided by us, on the fly that we extend our trip by a day, halt at Coorg on 29th December and come back by 30th. But as luck goes, Amma strictly said no, and told that we shud return by 29th as we had told her before we left. Very disappointed, we decided that we will take a very long route. We decided to drive all along the coast.

We checked out at 10a.m., after having dosas. One must agree that dosas that you get in Kerala are so crispy and just don’t have any oil in them. From Kozhikode we started our drive towards Kannoor…We drove along the Chaliyar river for a long time… Then we came to the main road where we saw this amazing beach called Beypore beach…I got permission from my bro to get down and stand near the beach…I enjoyed that for some time and drove along the beach. There was a bridge and when we were on the bridge Lo behold we saw backwaters on side and the river and sea meeting on the other…Wow man that was surely a sight to see…How I cursed my bro for not bringing the charger of the digicam :(

Then we found a deviation to Kappad beach. Though we didn’t venture into the beach, we drove to Kappad beach…It was an awesome beach with white sand…It was so picturesque…So beautiful…I felt so bad that I could not venture into the water…After we came back, when I was browsing the net I came to know this was the beach where Vasco Da Gama first put his step.

Then we drove occasionally seeing the sea, then we reached Mahe, and I was bent upon to see the beach. Even this beach had white sand and was very beautiful. But Mahe on the whole is a small and dirty place. The beach resort was so deserted. After we crossed, Mahe there was this excellent stretch to Kannoor, where we zoomed. The highway was just done and was really nice. We had our lunch at the, so called, three star restaurant at Kannoor, which was worse than a Darshini at Blore. We thought probably a dosa would have been nice.

We started off from Kannoor to Mangalore. Anna had played a pleasant music, and I don’t know when I had dozed off. I usually don’t doze off, if the person is driving and there is no one else in the car. But I seriously don’t know, I had such a nice nap for about less than an hour. When I get up, I saw that he had switched of the music, lest it would wake me up, and also he had slowed down, as the roads very a little bumpy and I would wake up. After I got up I badly wanted tea/coffee, but we still had not reached Kasargod. When we were nearing Kasargod, we saw a deviation to Bekal fort and Bekal beach. It didn’t strike us, as to where we had heard about it. But we decided to go, though it was 16 kms deviation. When we reached there, we realized that this is where “Bombay” movie was shot…The beach was simply beautiful with a flock of cranes or swans, I don’t know some white birds. We decided to walk in the beach; I kept jumping, as there were crabs running here and there. The fort simply looked awesome and beautiful, but due to lack of time we decided against going to the fort.

We reached Mangalore at around 6.We went to coffee day picked up coffee. We called mom with the anticipation that she would say stay and come tomorrow. But she simply did not budge, and didn’t mention anything about it. Then we decided that we will not ask her and we will go to Bangalore by 12 or 1. SO we started off from Mangalore after sunset.

As we went past various villages, and we came to Uppinangadi, where we asked to take a deviation via Subramanya and go to Gundiya, due to some accident. This cost us almost and hour and half. The road was bad and it was a little of ghat section. All we had to eat was packet of lays and some kurkure. And we were feeling so hungry as it was 8.30. After we reached Gundiya, there was a small jam due to the lorry traffic. Then we got on to the Ghat section to Sakleshpur, reached Sakleshpur by 10.30. By the time we reached Hassan it was 11. We called home, and mom told halt in Hassan and come the next day. It was like, why could she not have made this decision earlier. Then we checked into a hotel in Hassan, and didn’t have dinner, as all the hotels were closed. We had some Marie biscuits and went to sleep. Next day we left Hassan at 10, and reached home by 1 for lunch.

The drive from Hassan to Bangalore was very thrilling and nice. We had a kind of race with a lancer, whose ego was constantly hurt that an Indica was overtaking him. He started driving really rash, and then we decided that let him have his way. We were almost couple of kms behind him. When we entered Blore limits, we again met him. At a signal, my bro being a very intelligent driver overtook a lorry and that guy in Lancer followed in the same way. During the second overtake, that guy didn’t notice or didn’t analyze the situation well and was stuck behind a bus. My oh my! look on his face was really a sight to see. When we overtook and he would overtake us again, he would give a kind of grin as if he was Schumi. But this time, it was the looks, which simply can’t be described. My bro ands I thrilled as if we had won a Grand Prix. We simply were grinning for almost 15 min. and were just hoping that he could catch up with us. But we had left him behind at quite a distance.

Well there ended the memorable trip!!! But hoping we get time to go for more like one.