Driving
I had always hated to drive around untill last week. I had gone on a long trip (by my standards) to the heart of tamil nadu. It was a 800 km round spread over 3 days.It really got to me to start liking to drive around , feel the pulse of the car as it goes thru a novel experience.
The trip upto Thrissur was uneventful , just the plain old road with rains in between , things got interesting with the 'kuthiran' a difficult hill crossing on the highway. It must have been routine for the rest of the folks but to pass thru the mist did change something in me. Rains that pattered heavily had reduced to showers and drizzles as we moved towards the plains of Tamil Nadu.We did have a glimpse of the Coca Cola factory in Plachimada a reminder of a similar transition in the lives of people in Perumatty. Tamil boards started to appear and we officially crossed into Tamil Nadu thru a broken down checkpost at Meenakshipuram.
The next point on the route was to be Pollachi - a realtively wet place indeed as we go to know. It did look almost like the other side of the lofty Western Ghats which always loomed in the background. It seems that the palms which on the other side had failed to bear a few fruits are here weighing down heavily with them .Vast tracts of light green signified rice growing .Food for the Malayalees now has to come from outside the state - for they have grown too lazy to produce it themselves.The rain still drizzlled and churned the chocolate under the tyres. The road has been removed to lay new one ! The delicious paste stuck to our horns making them blare hoarsely and shorted wires that lay exposed under the vehicle. It beats a hurdle race to drive without a horn in Pollachi.
Our destination for the day was Palani a good hour's drive away.The landscape had dropped to the standard tamilian plain though the mighty ghats were visible to our right.The vegeation had dropped to bushes and people got to be scarce things to be seen . The roads grew better , smoother and faster as night fell. It was earlier than usual for us on the west coast. The tiredness of it all had begun to take it toll . the lights of the holy hillock did keep up our spirits fron afar.We entered Palani late into the evening and had a good night's rest.
I had always hated to drive around untill last week. I had gone on a long trip (by my standards) to the heart of tamil nadu. It was a 800 km round spread over 3 days.It really got to me to start liking to drive around , feel the pulse of the car as it goes thru a novel experience.
The trip upto Thrissur was uneventful , just the plain old road with rains in between , things got interesting with the 'kuthiran' a difficult hill crossing on the highway. It must have been routine for the rest of the folks but to pass thru the mist did change something in me. Rains that pattered heavily had reduced to showers and drizzles as we moved towards the plains of Tamil Nadu.We did have a glimpse of the Coca Cola factory in Plachimada a reminder of a similar transition in the lives of people in Perumatty. Tamil boards started to appear and we officially crossed into Tamil Nadu thru a broken down checkpost at Meenakshipuram.
The next point on the route was to be Pollachi - a realtively wet place indeed as we go to know. It did look almost like the other side of the lofty Western Ghats which always loomed in the background. It seems that the palms which on the other side had failed to bear a few fruits are here weighing down heavily with them .Vast tracts of light green signified rice growing .Food for the Malayalees now has to come from outside the state - for they have grown too lazy to produce it themselves.The rain still drizzlled and churned the chocolate under the tyres. The road has been removed to lay new one ! The delicious paste stuck to our horns making them blare hoarsely and shorted wires that lay exposed under the vehicle. It beats a hurdle race to drive without a horn in Pollachi.
Our destination for the day was Palani a good hour's drive away.The landscape had dropped to the standard tamilian plain though the mighty ghats were visible to our right.The vegeation had dropped to bushes and people got to be scarce things to be seen . The roads grew better , smoother and faster as night fell. It was earlier than usual for us on the west coast. The tiredness of it all had begun to take it toll . the lights of the holy hillock did keep up our spirits fron afar.We entered Palani late into the evening and had a good night's rest.
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