BIKERS CLUB APRIL 2019 ISSUE | Page 46

I could here the cheers from crowd and claps, especially a beautiful young girl who was cheering loud, and why not, she was my love and was very happy seeing me performing on stage.. whom I married later. Welcome to the Hotel California, Such a lovely place.. such a lovely place.. such a lovely face.. Plenty of room at the Hotel California.. Any time of year.. any time of year.. You can find it here.. I woke up with determination and immediately rammed to my wife and said about my plane to ride solo to Araku Vally. She was so happy and said "when are we going?" I said "I want to ride SOLO on my SHAURYA to Araku Valley." Of petrol from there because after Bhadra Chalam, there isn't any petrol pump till 300 kms. Anyways I went home with excitement, spent some time with my family had dinner and went to sleep early, because I wanted to hit the road early in the morning next day. I woke up 5:30 am in the morning, my wife was up before I woke up, I had tea and breakfast with her, hugged her and went for my first ever SOLO ride to Araku Vally. I started Shaurya and began my journey, IT WAS 21ST AUGUST 2017, SATURDAY, all excited I was, I had filled my Shaurya full yesterday, now it was just me, my thoughts and shaurya, what else I wanted. Monsoon was not totally over, there were some drizzling, but I was fully geared up with riding gears and enjoying my ride. I wasn't a rider and I used to wonder why people are crazy about riding.. whenever I used to meet any rider, they were all about riding and bikes and long distances and all, I used to feel annoyed, like why these people brag about rides and bikes, It is unless I She gave me permission because she knew about my riding passion but she didn't started riding I realized, what riding is all about, in fact after I started speak with me for two days. Ha Ha Ha that riding few years ago, actually I started knowing my self. It something else which cannot be put in to words, riding is such a was piece of mind but I didn't want to hurt her, and I said let me complete this ride and thing that you have to experience it yourself, no one else can explain unless you are rider yourself. will surely go to some short vacation together next weekend. I went to work physically but I was totally intrigued with the I knew the way till Bhadra Charan, It's about 300 kms away from Hyderabad. As this was my first SOLO ride I was more excited thought of going SOLO for Araku Valley. about it and I was feeling novice in terms of riding, because in a group, there is some rider who is leading the entire group but in It was Friday evening August 2017, I SOLO, you are on your own. messaged that rider friend on facebook about his ride to Araku Valley. Araku Vally is around 700 kms far from Hyderabad and I knew only one way is to go from Vizag and it is four lane highway. I came home early to prepare for my ride for next day.. I took shaurya to mechanic for some tuning, and routine check up, I received a message back from that unknown friend from facebook, he mentioned about a route which was new to me and very scenic. He suggested, I should take route of Hyderabad to Araku Valley via Bhadra chalam, which is a hilly route with 400 kms of Ghat section, and that was it I got excited by that, I decided to take that route instead of regular Vizag route, But he insisted and told me Full your tank at Bhadra Chalam and take two extra bottles