Recently, 50-year-old, sanskari, politically vocal, gentlemanly, secular-humanist, single, fit, good-looking, bearded motorcyclists who have walked the BJY, kick ass on social media, have a quirky sense of humour, attract hate from the right wing, are good with kids, live with their loving but tough-as-nails mothers, and are sons of pilot fathers are in the news. (As an aside, I’d like to note that no one has ever seen me in the same room or photograph as Rahul Gandhi. I mean, think about it. Just saying.)
In light of that, I have decided to embark on a (longish) solo trip down parts of Southern India to celebrate Kym and I turning one year older, she 9 and me 51. She will travel with her mum by air and road to Coonoor and back while I faff around to take in the sights on two wheels for a bit more as I zig-zag across the peninsula and meet people, eat food, and photograph random stuff to post.
My itinerary is as follows:
- Pune-Bengaluru (28 August 2023)
- Bengaluru-Coonoor (29 August 2023)
- Coonoor (29 August – 02 September 2023)
- Coonoor-Kodaikanal (02 September 2023)
- Kodaikanal (02 September – 05 September 2023)
- Kodaikanal-Karaikkudi (05 September 2023)
- Karaikkudi (05 September – 07 September 2023)
- Karaikkudi-Puducherry (07 September 2023)
- Puducherry (07 September – 09 September 2023)
- Puducherry-Bengaluru (09 September 2023)
- Bengaluru (09 September – 13 September 2023)
- Bengaluru-Pune (13 September 2023). This return date is tentative. I might stay for another day or two, or may return earlier.
Any recommendations? Advice? Anecdotes from experience? Cautionary moral lectures (which I shall ignore, but secretly love you for being concerned) about not riding fast or not going on this trip at all or how I am a senile old man suffering from hallucinations? Scenic routes? Must see, must do things?
Does anyone want to meet me in any of these places on the said dates (I already have meetings planned with some folks, so we’ll have to work around that)? Does anyone want to ride alongside (they’ll need their own wheels, 2 or 4) on any leg? DM me. Everything and everyone is welcome.
And now, I log off again. Back to, erm, doing whatever it was I was doing before this.
