April 2004. Happened to be our last road trip. We meant only to go to Lonavala-Khandala. But it turned out to be the wrong time of the year to visit. Changed the course and off to Mumbai we went! Reached there, looked up http://xmec.net to find with whom we could stay. Printed out maps of the city and set out in a touch-the-important-spots whirlwhind tour. Crazy crazy trip.





At Karla, we took some lovely photos, one of which I have uploaded and published earlier. Eating beef in Pune, stopping to ask directions from Karla at shops and feeling obliged to buy chikki from each shop in return, racing through the tunnels at the Pune-Mumbai express highway, going to the Imax and my falling asleep through out the movie, Bhishkie getting lost right after the movie, Vini deciding that she needs to eat fried rice in the dead of the night and our walking over to a shack opposite the petrol pump (where we had stopped so that Thottettan could get his beauty sleep) and a woman in the shack getting up from sleep and whipping up an instant fried rice, and best of all, buying nehru topis and wearing them on the way back and greeting the elderly farmers we met on the way raising our topis .....There, that is my collage.

Driving back, we hated it when we got out of Maharashtra and stopped getting the radio.



There is a snap of an extremely tired Thottettan, dozing off in the car, when we stopped a good 200 kms from Hyd, on our way back so that Thots could catch some sleep. I considered a full minute about the advisability of posting it. Guns or Roses, I am gonna post it..





Um, it was our last major road trip. Some things changed after this trip, a few variables here and there, the equation was altered and it is with a sense of loss that we look back at it now.