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Lohgad Trip!

Yupee! Another trip in merely five day gap but spirits are high as it was for Sinhgad trip, and people stated organising, and collecting information about our destination - Lohgad! For me as usual trip starts a day before, so I asked my pickup point to be Pashan, Sus Road, but it didn't worked and again I've to reach Rohit's place. I left office on time and reached my place at around 6:45 pm and next task in the list is reaching Rohit's place!! so I chaned my T-shirt and pick few bare minimal things required for the trip and left my place at around 7:10 pm.

This time I decided to change my route and the strategy is to reach E-Square and take a shared auto from there to reach Jagtap Dairy ( there's not Dairy I found over there ;), so I rushed to Sus Road, Sai Chowk bus stop and seen Channa - Namkeen thela nearby, I noticed that the boy selling the stuff is the same guy who used to sell Bhutta(Corn) rosted, hey I knew this guy, let take some timepass stuff and ask about the next bus. Next scene, I'm taking channa-namkin combo with this guys, I recalled his name but as usual, unable to do so, I asked his name and he told with a smile "Bijender" then asked Bijender about the next bus arrival, he told that it will come in next 15 minutes, so standing on the bus stop and thinking / staring people who pass by me ;). Finally a white color Indica stoped a few meters near the bus stop and junta rushed to catch that, me being a part of junta also queried "E-Square jaayegi ?" (are you heading towards E-Square?).

The dirver nodded his head by saying "baith jaao" (come join in), usually these taxi's are Call Center/IT company cabs who are either on their way to pickup employees or after dropping all of them, take junta from bus stops and drop in their way if it falls in between! So now I'm in the cab with other 4 guys, 1 driver, 3 marathi guys(they were chatting in Marathi) and lastly the 8th wonder of this world me ;). After arriving at E-Square, I gave a Rs. 10 note to the driver and asked "theek hai ?" (is it ok?) he nodded and I left the cab, crossed the road and now I'm at E-Square bus stop!, by the way if I would have taken a auto-rickshwa from Sus Road it would have charged me somewhere around 50 bucks(so I saved 40 bucks!)

At E-Square bus stop there were a few collage students, got nostalgic about our collage days, when we used to wait for that Route No. 473/460 at Madan Pur Khadar(somewhere near Sarita Vihar, Delhi), after our collage or after bunking ;). After few buses came in I've no idea which one to catch, so I called Rohit and he told me to take a shared auto and ask for "JagTap Dairy", "ussse JagTaap Dairy poonchna", I nodded and after waiting for few minutes, a shared auto stopped near the bus stop I rushed and asked the driver, who replied positively and I jumped in the back seat, now something about these
"shared-autos":- these are the vehicle's from some other unkown plant where there's no rules on pollution emissions, they set exemplary for space-utilization, capacty planning and operational effeciency!.

After analyzing all these management fundas on a shared-auto I realised this is a great evening, with full moon, cool breeze and my head outside the shared auto and rest of the body inside it! I started enjoy my shared-auto trip by somtimes watching the moon, and rest of the time staring the gals passing in cars and pedestrians ;), after travelling for few minutes I again realized that the auto is heading on a wrong way, I jumped out  of the auto after paying the fare, the place I was in was KaleWadi Fata (Ya I know there a weared names here), Kirti's home is nearby so I called her up to meet as well as Rohit for pickup.

After some time Kirti came, we chit-chatted for a while and Rohit joined in, after having some cold-drinks we(me and Rohit) left to his place. He dropped to me on a local parantha wala dhaba, and left to pickup others, Subham and Anish. After 15-20 minutes they came and after having few parantha's as dinner we left to Rohit's place. After watching a B-Grade movie "Hydrabadi Nawab", I slept at 1:15 am.

<tring><tring>My phone rings, it was Kirti's wakeup call, I thanked her and got ready for the trip. Rohit and I left his place at around 4:30 am, this time Anish was with us to drop us at Kirti's place. This time there were no stry dogs, fuel was full in bike's tank and we taken a path which we were confident. We reached Anmol Residency at around 4:45am and waited for some time till the cab comes, Kirti joined us as well.

Finally the cab arrived, Bhavik, Sarthak, and Kirti(Kamtikar) were already there, so we hopped into the cab and headed towards Preeti, Pavan and ShriRam's pickup point.........hmmmmm I forgot to mention this time our last trip's dropout Minakshi was also joined us! We picked up rest of the three and the cab at this point in time is almost packed!!

We started our trip by simple "Hi" to everyone and introducing ourselves, and the chit-chat started in the cab! Next big thing everyone was talking about was "Where's Prashant?" , this time Prasant joined us but he was coming on his own bike with his friend Sandeep. We met Prashant at a predetermined stop and afterwards proceeded but..........wait there's some shuffling, Sandeep hopped into the cab and Pavan joined prashant as pillion, as he know the way to Lohgad! so the finally we are heading towards our destination - Lohgad.

In between, we discussed films, trips and other experiences in cab, I don't know how it started but at a point in time everyone started giving nick names to other guy/gal. I was named Pomeranian Veeru - sholey wala Veeru guys!, Kirti(Kamtikar) is Pomeranian Basanti, Shriram is Gabbar (don't know why he's not Pomeranian Gabbar anyways!), Kirti Khare (Mausi), Bhavik (Jai) and Sarthak (Thakur : though with hands ;).

We stopped somewhere on highway to have our morning tea, and afterwards started heading towards Lohgad..... someone realised that we are heading towards a wrong direction, we asked a person on the highway and he told us to take a U-Turn and go back 15 Kms, this is S***T! Few of us got frustrated and started bullying the driver and rest tried to calm them, finally we got the right way and reached Lohgad at around 7:15 am.

The sun was shining quite brighter now but because of the cool breeze, there was a relief to us. We started trekking but wait stairs! .................what the hell! are we going to take stairs on trekking!, ........a small boy guided us to right path towards Lohgad fort, after thanking him we started our trek. Frankly speaking there was now as such trek here, simple path was there, and our mob started walking uphill.

There are different categories of people I found out whenever we go on a outing:

• Those who love the scenic beauty and enjoy it.
• Those who are there only to have few good pics and are always ready in a pose to be clicked.
• Those who are always comparing & complaining about the things and finally,
• Those woh don't know why they were there!

I fall in the first one and partially in the second one as well. I took few good pics, played few pranks and giggled with other trippers. We took few breaks and had lemonade in our way, and finally we reached at the peak.

The fort is quite old and a bit haunted, though it seems more like a fort gate to me :P. We had some breakfast after reaching there some good photo session started.

Afterwards, we headed towards "Bicchu Point", but after walking down for some time we reached a dead-end, so we dropped our "Bicchu Point" idea and started to climb downwards.

We got back in our cab at around 1pm and headed towards Pune, in between we stopped at a local restro and had our lunch, everyone ordered "Peas Pulao and Lassi" except me, I ordered "Peas Pulao and Fresh Lime Soda", after finishing our lunch we are back in our cab and listened few bollywood dikchik-dikchik numbers.

I was a bit sad :( and just thaught that if somebody would take it otherwise, it's not done because of my pranks etc. Finally, same drop order and this time I was dropped at Aundh, had coconut water and headed towards an auto-rickshaw to reach my home here at Sus Road. After some struggle I finally got an auto and reached home!

It was a rocking trip not in terms of adventure but more in terms of knowing each others lighter side.

I'm sorry guy/gals if I unintentionally hurt you! and

Thanks for a rocking trip!

Next Trip : Delhi - Diwali Holidays - Delhi I'm coming :D

Mails:

From: Agarwal, Preeti
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:23 AM
To: Khare, Kirti; Saha, Rohit; Shah, Bhavik; Yadav, Ram; Naidu, Pavan; Deshpande, Sriram; Kamtikar, Kirti; Jachak, Prashant; Rajoura, Minakshi; Chakraborty, Sarthak
Subject: RE: Trip to Lohgad

From: Khare, Kirti
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Saha, Rohit; Shah, Bhavik; Agarwal, Preeti; Yadav, Ram; Naidu, Pavan; Deshpande, Sriram; Kamtikar, Kirti; Jachak, Prashant; Rajoura, Minakshi; Chakraborty, Sarthak
Subject: RE: Trip to Lohgad

• CABBIES
  • Rohit Saha
  • Kirti Khare
  • Preeti Agarwal
  • Bhavik Shah
  • Pavan Naidu
  • Ram Yadav
  • Sriram Deshpande
  • Kirti Kamtikar   
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• BIKERS
  • Prashant Jachak and his friend
    

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