Nirvana Roadies - 07/03/09 (Harry Singh)

Daily Diary dated the 7th day of March, 2009

The day started like any other , but was different - it was a weekend bash time - the double dose biking

The anticipation of the evening was also in our minds as the party would continue into the night and the theme is making headlines " Chandni Chowk to China ....ooops Nirvana " .....tain tain tain !!! the anticipation was made more pronounced by the art of our Chief Keith (a title he deserves as he is my bro from the bush ....Nigeria). He got a great work of art on Pankaj commisioned - fertile minds always have their way ...wow....everyone is still amazed at the same

well back to the Roadies stuff , Hemant was the leader and defined the path...he had been itching to take the group to a bauli on a faqir samadhi we had discovered some time back...the trek has gone unreported due to file size issues ..thus little evidence posted on the shutterfly site except two peacocks called hemant and pankaj looking at it while all the beauty of peahens went abegging ( and mind you , quite a few of them were there )....and ofcourse the laziness of yours truly who was to file a report and bunked

We set off to an "awesome trail" which has a beautiful landscaped road with palatial gates leading to a 'sawarg' .....no no only mud tracks followed by barren land so its not exactly a jouney to the 'netherworld' but one which leads to a nice peaceful trail (peaceful because it is devoid of the head splitting fragrance of other trails of last few days ....fragrance can be better explained by roadies themselves and the Sawarg gates are the only structure standing on an Emaar project )

As we moved through the nice flat stretch and joined the curving road leading to our temple joint , we decided that the tea break will be on the way down ...so gave the poor chaiwala a miss

Up we went into the higher aravallies and stopped for a farm house inspection - results - a good job done , small size , double terraced features for a tree and the peacocks (the peahens were there ofcousrse but left the poor peacock for a nice perch on an adjoining tin sheet boundaries which came up in the intervening weeks.....some Reccession @@@@ )

We turned to the samadhi and admired the beautiful bauli surronded by trees in the foothills of aravallies .....wow there was my friend, a peacock on his vigil at his perch on the tallest tree where i left him last

This time it was a short break , less emotional and off we went ...wait wait not before Sanjay regaled us with the last conversation while defending the Yatra.com agency which he has got gratis .....you know they have a scheme , where if you dance in the middle seat (free to chose the type ...samba is preferbale but any would do) you get a rebate of Rs 300 showered on you ...oh you dont know ....tut tut ...even the caller didnt know and i rue the fact that if i had known the flight no , we could have a report filed on the live performance and ofcourse amazing discussion on Rs 300 rebate that would have followed ......

Of to the aravallies, The chief Amrendra in the lead and we zoom off......into the mountains .....the track was Rock On !! Yeh Jeene ka ishara , Rock On.......
After all that shaking ...vaking , i took a cue from Sanjay and started walking......ok guys great scene and yes hemant we cant go to that house this time .....next time ...next time ????... yes because we discovered a puncture no 1 (Pankaj down), then Hemant was not sure if it was 'hava' gone or puncture , you know that was the german technolgy causing a mirage .....and then follwed Amrendra (three down)....wow man so we finally encountered a real situation ...the honeymoon was over....the african chief with his pump was fast asleep devoid of the knowledge of our pains ....Roadies there and then passed a board resolution that he has to accompany even if there is one person going ...his fault ....he has a pump & a jazzy kit .....i bet if other than Russ any one would want to re-assemble his bike in god foresaken arravalies....your take .....!! Oh the tally . the walking guys were spared and also the ones with microsoft lineage ....see even god fears them ....u know why - the operating system up there is from microsoft too .....

We started walking back , this was the great side kick but all were unhappy for the Omelete in forest .........yes omelete and that too in a dense patch of forest was awaiting us and now seemed too distant....the spirits were fading ...especially everyone back home knew ...pop goes the breakfast and more than that this is our reward for the spoils of hard labour the Roadies put in...so how can we let it go.....

Of marched the Col Haathi brigade (which i talked about last time) this time on the trail of the Puncture specialist ......when we reached his house , you know he had gone to distribute cards ....so he knew 3 poor roadies are coming , its party time !!

Frustated and determined to find a quick answer we moved our search for another one....but the hopes were dashed as our Dehat has a queer way of working .....one cycle repair guy for twenty villages (Business opportunity anyone !!)

Finally we reached a pucca road and the down bikes/bikers hitched a ride on a trailer , all looking at the jungle patch now visible ..... Omeletes

We reached a shop who attended to our bikes better than what would have been in the village and Pankaj treated us to mixed juice and ofcourse our JIT omeletes
breakfast...thanks

well relaxed we headed home looking forward to a chat , gol guppa , Tikki , Chole bhuture night on the rocks with a seasoned bartender in attendance

we had a great pre holi time .....!!

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