The very first Nomad trip
After a whole day of fire-fighting, I think it is apt that I take some time off and write down memoirs of my recent bike ride to Nainital. Read it slowly... like you have coffee on a rainy day, one sip at a time. It was one crazy moment when the three of us decided that next weekend is when we will take up this ambitious (rather, utterly idiotic) plan of biking down to Nainital. We leave the Noida office on 20th July 2002 after our graveyard shift, which gets over by 6:00am. The road till Hapud (51 km) is quite decent, 2-lane highway. From Hapud to Moradabad is rather bad, since it is just one-lane and the trucks take your happiness away. Moradabad has a fresh bypass now, which is unbelievably good,so good that u feel like u are in firang-land. 7-8 km of straight road, with no traffic at all. We ride at our respective bikes' top speed. We stop at a dhaba after Moradabad, eat Aloo paratha and rest a while. It is about 10:00am and quite cloudy. We take to road in a while and reach a ...