Hi again everybody I am back with my new ride with Captain M!!
I am still a bit hazed as how Captain M makes me ride to such beautiful paces and the adventure of finding these places. SO Captain M and R have been thinking of starting 2017 with a ride and the search started for a trip thats not too expensive or too exhaustive as Captain M as travelling to Odisha to see her grandmother, which gave her 3 days of leave for herself before she joins work again.
After a lot of skull scratching and internet searching later Gudalur was finalised with a very quint little Resort. You can't call it a resort it was a turtle guesthouse with no food for the human and that excited R a great deal. Captain M is a lazy human and R during holidays is a bundle of energy Captain M hates, oh damn I am gonna be carrying grumpy Captain M after the ride in Gudalur... I look at Miss Sheela and she's worried with her own problem of carrying R an extra jumpy R around for thrée days. She just caught me staring and let's out a heavy breadth, when I now think of it little did she knew that day it will be her last ride with R ( that's a story for later by Captain M)
There are many types of riders in this big world and I want to talk about R here, he was just starting to enjoy Miss Sheela's caliber as a machine and the more I rode with him I realised it's not the ride he enjoyed it's the possiblity to see places with the thing Miss Sheela and person Captain M he loved the most. Captain M would always wonder how did she end up with a rider who has no intention of riding but loved to be called a rider. He has never ridden me except this one time when he had to take to mechanics after a sleepy Toyota hit me and Captain M, it took him one whole year to accept to Captain M that I am perfect for her . Ha ha ha .... Son of a Gun...
Ok back to the ride... Ohh these two are just too perfect out on time riding and loving every moment and I am noticing they have developed a strong connection with each other talking their own language and they both wanted to stop at Mysore ... Me and Miss Sheela thought there you go the R will make Captain M do the touristy stuff and she will curse the ride but to my wonder what do I see they are parking us at Hotel Pai Vista to have food at 11am (people who love the budget eateries entering 4 start hotel of Mysore) me and Miss Sheela smirked and we new we have seen it all.
People usually take 45minutes to an hour to eat but these buggers took 2.5 hours for lunch, apparently the food in their gufa restaurant is Captain M's favourite and R does everything that Captain M wants no matter what....... I think she likes this about R but does not admit it.
Finally they are back and saddling up to ride. I am so excited I can't tell you the anticipation of getting to see wild animals and the fantastic terrains is damn exciting. And true to my excitement we reach bandipur and the speed dropped to 30 and the riders forgot to call the resort guys and the scary part they have no clue where to go. These two riders are so absorbed in eachother and the nature they don't realise they and they take the road to Masinagudi 60kms to the opposite direction to Gudalur. The humans have left their brains and do not realise the fact that they are lost till they have covered 100 kms. It's 6pm already and they get a call from the resort guy to enquire when they will reach, is when they realise they have lost the way and after lot of Google maps searching and talking to the locals in broken languages they finally get the right direction. And we start the right route this time in dark and 20 minutes to the journey Miss Sheela and R got a showdown with a herd of bisons ramming the roads and they almost lost their marbles....
The entire way from Masinagudi till Gudalur was an adventure we saw ramming bisons angry elephant mom, jumping monkeys, dears and one tiger couple.... How can I tell it was a couple? Well the male tiger was too into the femail tiger if you know what I mean. My headlights are shy now and Miss Sheela is not even looking at me lol....
Anyhoo we reach the resort after a long day and Captain M finds a resting place for me and Miss Sheela and instruct the helpers to clean us in the morning and I could not hear more I was already in my dream world.
