Road Trip a.k.a Ad-venture

An impromptu decision…(not exactly, but no details there :p) thats what lead to this wonderful and an amazing Road Trip to Nainital. Although we neva reachd there… :p we made a pit stop at Sattal, an amazing spot, valley a few kms before nainital, and the moment we stepped onto the staircase of the resort where we were supposed to stay… a thought crossed my mind "why the hell do we need to go to nainital…lets just stay here, what a view this place has, lets enjoy the beauty n have a complete relaxation holiday"… and well...we ended up staying there only but not for relaxation….no…no…but for all the adventure, that the place had to offer…J

Let me take you back a few hours. We began our journey from Faridabad on road by car and d moment we were in Ghaziabad, it started raining cats and dogs…wat a downpour, and we thought if this is the weather here, what wud b d scene up dre…bt we came out of that bottle-neck pretty quick, and landed ourselves in another one i.e. a flat tire…(shehh :-/) well…and for the first time in my life I pumped air into a car tire with an air-pump (believe me, it takes a toll on u pretty fast…). Most of the next part of the journey was pretty much uneventful, till the moment in took the wheel in my hands, cautiously speeding through the single road, I applied brakes due to traffic and suddenly….BAAMMMM….a bike, crashes into our car n goes our tail-light(came to know later) and all I get to see in the rear-view mirror is the biker getting up and picking up the bike and the pillion rider still lying down…frankly speaking, it never occurred to me that I should stop the car and my instant reflex was to keep going (don't know why…may be guilt, panic, which I later realized was not my mistake at all). After a few minutes I stopped the car, my brother took over the wheel and I came and sat at the back seat and my bhabhi and brothers telling me to just relax and calm down….phewww….(I don't remember some of the journey after that)… well then moving on, we finally reached the point we aimed for – SATTAL (forgot to mention the innumerous times we had to pay toll-tax throughout our trip…neva knew we crossed so many states…. :p)

The moment we stepped out of our car, the whole hectic journey was as if thrown out of the window, the spell-binding beauty of the valley/mountains took away our stress along-with our breaths, the descended clouds as if sucked up all the tiredness from our bodies…and dark stagnant lake just made us realize that we made a great decision by coming here. We waited for a 4x4 vehicle that would take us up to the resort another 1.5 km upwards (yeah…our car cud nt go up there, it required a spl vehicle…and after going that path, we had no doubts dat its true.)

Freshening up, having a bath, relaxing, having a coffee at the porch, with a marvelous view…next step, dinner, a complementary affair…yummmm…. amazing food…each and every thing from soup to dessert….mmuuuaahh…ending the night completely stuffed, result, a good sound sleep…

The all exciting morning came and after having another good stuffing of the food (breakfast)…we descended the mountain towards the lake and the very first activity helped up do away with all the heavy food we had, Boating…paddling the boat was a task that equaled the amount of exercise one would do in the gym on their legs. And the best thing was, we started boating on a clear lake with a great view on all directions, but halfway through, all we could see was clouds hovering over the lake and covering all d mountains…it was like a sudden and complete makeover. Next we went to attempt a thing from a dream adventure sport list made mentally…i.e. ROCK CLIMBING…scratched and bruised we climbed a 20ft rock, and what a feeling it felt when on the top. (not gonna give more details about it, u need to experience it to feel it…). Tired like anything, we went for again a heavy lunch, but me and my cousin still had the enthusiasm, courage and craziness left to do a 1.5km trek (the same steep one which leads us to our resort). Walking through the clouds among the huge trees (have visual proof :p) we reached the resort all sweaty and with another wonderful experience in our pocket. No more adventure for the day, just another amazing dinner and then good nights sleep.

The last leg of our trip i.e. The way back…but wait…the mental adventure sport list suddenly came to life again and we gave another one of it a shot i.e. RIVER CROSSING…if boating gave you a good work-out for legs and thighs, this one is a sure shot for fore-arms and biceps. What…an…experience…(again no details…you know why). So now we are on our way back, and luckily or unluckily, it started raining heavily know in the mountains… but rest of the journey was smooth, non-disturbing, until…we came near Delhi and saw which was not there for the past two days i.e. Traffic jams, queues of cars, bikes, buses, etc…and we finally reached back Faridabad…all in one piece…

Huh…

Great trip, amazing experience, well spent time…thnx to bhaiya for choosing the venue and the resort to stay in (it made all the difference)…thnx to richu for being with me for all d crazy stuff we did there…thnx to bhabhi for being there, hearing and bearing my jokes and letting us do what we wanted (hehe ;p) and all the thnx to Mahira…my cutie li'l pie niece…whenever we were doing nothing, she was always there to keep up busy…come what may…

P.S. – More such add-ventures on the way… now no turning back.