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Going to Neverland
Month of September 2018 was about to end that too without a road trip. That was too much for my wandering soul. With leave for 2nd October approaching, I asked out Manish, Nitin Thapa and Rahul, both my colleagues for a short three day road trip. Rahul insisted that he wanted to visit any of the Char dham except Gangotri where he had already visited. I proposed to go to Badrinath even though three days were far too short to actually enjoy the visit. Everyone was up for it and we locked in on Badrinath as a destination both for spiritual as well as drive destination.
We planned to take short leave from office on 29th September 2018 and make night halt at Rishikesh. We left from our office at around 4.00 pm and after negotiating all the routine traffic hazards upto Meerut bye pass reached Rishikesh past mid-night. But not before we took one break for chai-pani and other for a late dinner near Haridwar. Also, we met an old friend Saurabh Bhatia at Roorkee briefly who also gave us a heads-up on the road conditions we would find ahead of Roorkee. Roads from Roorkee till Haridwar was all messed up with craters replacing pot-holes. We had pre-booked our hotel stay through Oyo. Rooms were little cramped yet comfortable. We crashed as soon as we checked in.
A chai-maggie break around Muzaffarnagar
We planned to take short leave from office on 29th September 2018 and make night halt at Rishikesh. We left from our office at around 4.00 pm and after negotiating all the routine traffic hazards upto Meerut bye pass reached Rishikesh past mid-night. But not before we took one break for chai-pani and other for a late dinner near Haridwar. Also, we met an old friend Saurabh Bhatia at Roorkee briefly who also gave us a heads-up on the road conditions we would find ahead of Roorkee. Roads from Roorkee till Haridwar was all messed up with craters replacing pot-holes. We had pre-booked our hotel stay through Oyo. Rooms were little cramped yet comfortable. We crashed as soon as we checked in.
A chai-maggie break around Muzaffarnagar