The Touring Diary

A short trip to Savandurga with my office folks. The initial plan was to go out for a day with the team and after some discussions we came up with Savandurga which wasn't very far away from Bangalore and we can come back by lunch time. Savandurga is around 60Kms from Bangalore towards Magadi. Some facts about Savandurga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savandurga I opted to come on my bike as I have that motion sickness problem and can't sit in a bus/car for long duration. We started from our office at around 5 o clock and took the magadi road. There are couple of other routes also to reach this place but we took this as the bus driver knew only this one. Took a left after Magadi (not sure after how many kms), I wasn't sure of the route to reach there and was following the bus. I was able to see the monolith and thought of stopping and capturing a photo or two. After taking a couple of shots I continued and I missed a left turn which the bus had taken for reaching at the foot ...

Well not a trip log this time. Just some time pass along with my brother, nishu, this Diwali. I had got a new Camera (Canon 450D) and decided to put it to use capturing the fireworks illuminated Diwali nights. It was a mixed clicks by Nishu and I hence watermarked with our last name :) Not much to write here hence just sharing some of the pics: All of them Hand held Camera: Canon 450D with kit lens Exif: F10, Shutterspeed: 1 second, ISO:800 More pics from the camera here : Diwali 2009 Flickr

As the title suggests it feels good to be touring again after about 7 months of gap. Well it wasn't actually a tour but just a quick dash to near by place in Bangalore and back. But let me tell how it all got planned and materialized. But first little photo introduction: That's Lionel Yours Truly Going into flashback some time in July: I had been chatting updating Lionel about the comet upgrades since quite a while now. I've been telling him that I've got aftermarket levers from US for the bike and planning to put braided lines for the brakes. Lionel is the guy, stays in Pune, from whom I bought the Comet in 2007 Jan and since then we have been in contact. Initially we came in contact due to the bike purchase deal but now we are Friends having similar passion i.e. touring on bikes. Actually he is the person seeing his rides I got motivated to explore this area of touring on bikes. And I am so thankful to him for that. All this while Lionel didn't have a bike and mea...

After around six months I am again back to touring. I had to spend a lot of effort, money and time to bring my comet back to proper running condition after the Himalayas trip. So now that it was complete I wanted to start going on trips and I got a three day weekend to do so. I and Arjun were already having talks for going to Munnar and Prabhu was also interested. I thought of including my brother too for this trip now that he has his own bike (Yamaha FZ16). Also it was his birthday i.e. 27 March. I asked him if he is interested and he agreed to join in. After a couple of days Sunil sir also told me to go for a 3 day. Then we decided to club the two plans and all of us would go to Munnar. So here are the riders for this trip: 1. Sunil (Comet) 2. Sumit (Comet) 3. Prabhu (Comet) 4. Srikeerthi (Karizma) 5. Ajay (Karizma) 6. Arjun (Pulsar 200) 7. Jenson (Thunderbird) 8. Mohit (FZ16) The route taken: Day 1: Bangalore - Hosur - Krishnagiri - Dharmapuri - Salem - Tirupur - Udumalpet - Munnar ...