a Khichdi of my thoughts and experiences: 10/01/2007

Its been a long time since i'd gone for a cycle trip somewhere away from the city so decided to get out. actually two friends were supposed to come but one (yash) kept his phone in silent mode so didnt get up :-p. and even more unfortunate for madan whose cycle tyre refused to pressurize in the morning damn. so after two people couldnt make it to our meeting place it was just me standing in madhya kailas at 0555 thinking where to go. decided to go to marina beach and come back home. i started riding towards marina and reached too soon at 0610

so decided i'll keep driving some more distance. soon i decided to keep driving to north of chennai as far as i could for two hours and then turn back.

Had never explored the north part of chennai. immediately after marina beach comes chennai port, and after that its parrys and few more kms from there its royapuram. after parrys the road in royapuram is alongside the coast and theres a sea wall and there are groynes every km all the way till ennore which is where i ended the northward journey. the coast was just so beautiful. because of the sea wall the waves hit so close to the road that you can hear the sound of the waves hitting the rocks all along the road. one side of the road was

occupied completely with atleast a hundred container trucks standing in queue and moving at snails pace. by the time i reached ennore it was 0745 and time to turn back.

spent half hour sitting on the rocks and took many photos with my phone and then started driving back. reached home at about 1015 not to late for breakfast at home. was becoming too hot and difficult to drive after 10 anyway. so reached home at right time. had great time cycling as always.