Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (26) Gangtok to Lachung

16th March 2016, Wednesday…Day (26) Gangtok to Lachung 116 km It was second time during the trip that I was leaving Lalpari on its own, first time when I walked down 7000 stairs to and fro to Nongriat and stayed for the night in a rest house near the double decker living root bridge in …

Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (25) Gangtok

15th March 2016, Tuesday…Day (25) Gangtok 20 km After a nice sleep inside the car parked in front of Manoj's shop opposite Vajra Cinema Complex, got up to a nice morning in Gangtok. Had a nice cup of tea from a tea shop nearby run by a Nepali boy Roshan and his family. When I …

Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (24) Gangtok

14th March 2016, Monday…Day (24) Gangtok 76 km After a fabulous sleep inside the car, got up to a fantastic morning in Gangtok. Kazi road seems to be in a posh area. A number of well dressed men and women were walking, jogging and exercising on the road. I joined them too and had a …

Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (23) Hasimara-Gangtok

13th March 2016, Sunday…Day (23) Hasimara-Gangtok 240 km Is it Punjab? I asked myself when I got out of my car parked outside a Gurdwara in Hasimara. Almost all truck drivers who took night break at the place were from Punjab, spoke punjabi and went inside the Gurdwara for prayers first up. The drive from …

Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (22) Jorabat-Hasimara

12th March 2016, Saturday…Day (22) Jorabat-Hasimara 321 km Slept for almost two hours that night inside the car parked near a roadside dhaba in Jorabat. Jacob was half awake and waiting for me sitting on a chair, face resting on the table. He had spent the last two hours of the wee hours half awake …

Solo Drive to White Khajjiar…Day (3) Khajjiar to Amritsar

19th January 2017, Thursday….Day (3) Khajjiar to Amritsar, 263 km It was a freezing cold night. Strong chilly wind blew throughout the night. Unlike the previous night, I had to cover the car with plastic cover so as to minimise the impact of freezing cold. Put on another set of clothing and whatever bedding I …

Solo Drive to White Khajjiar…Day (2) White Khajjiar

18th January 2017, Wednesday….Day (2) White Khajjiar, 0 km I woke up to a stunning morning in Khajjiar that day..........! The whole surrounding had turned into pure white gold. The meadow was draped in pure white blanket and the sight was like an unimaginable beautiful dream coming right out of a fairy land. It looked …

Solo Drive to White Khajjiar…Day (1) Amritsar to Khajjiar

17th January 2017, Tuesday....Day (1) Amritsar to Khajjiar, 271 km Ever since my first bike ride to Khajjiar on blue Yamaha RX-100 in 1985, I have been to Khajjiar a number of times and in almost all seasons. But white Khajjiar had always eluded me. Since my freedom from Bank in 2011, I have dreamt …

Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (21) Dawki-Mawlynnong-Jorabat

11th March 2016, Friday…Day (21) Dawki-Mawlynnong-Jorabat 268 km When I got out of the car that morning in Dawki Sun was out and most people were already up and busy in their day to day chores. Like the previous night at Cherrapunjee had wonderful sleep inside the car parked at road side in Dawki. Dawki …

Solo Dream Drive towards North East 2016…Day (20) Cherrapunjee to Dawki

10th March 2016, Thursday…Day (20) Cherrapunjee to Dawki 156 km I slept for over 9 hours uninterrupted that night in Cherrapunjee, perhaps the best sleep of the trip inside the car so far, may be because the over 7000 steps that I had to tread while walking down and up the double decker bridge at …