Pune Darshan - A WEIRD TRIP :-(

A number of people in this world love to take a long drive... for any of the follwing reason:
1. To Relax
2. To kill time
3. To romanticize
4. For an adventure
5. In short for a purpose :-)
On thursday, 18 of June 2009 even i took a long ride... Sorry but it was not a Relaxing one.. Not to kill time (certainly not on a week day when i have lots to do at office) It was neither to romanticize, since i was with my roomie Abhilasha :-).. Surely an adventure but not a welcomed one.. And the purpose was..... ummm ..aaa....h....mmm....uuuuuhhhhh.. (I AM STILL FIGURING OUT)...
Actually yes.. I had to reach office !!!
STRANGE right... No its not that one fine day i had forgotten my way to my office.. :-(...
It was actually a day of Palki procession in Pune and the sholapur highway.. which we have to cross in order to reach Magarpatta( tats where my office is ) from Wanowrie( tats where my home is ), was BLOCKED. As in there was police all around the highway and the makeshift gates had been put up to block the crown on wheels from crossing the road...
We had been intimated by our travel department that the route would be blocked so there will be no bus service for specific areas and people will have to manage on their own in case they wish to reach office on time... Well, why not!!! We go to office daily on our two wheelers. So, this was no different day for us... Except for the fact we were not aware of which route to take.. So I called up my senior to ask him about the way... and he suggested one :-).. In the morning I and my roomie got up to reach office on time. we started at 9:20 AM in the morning and followed the route suggested by my senior. To our surprise the route was free and we managed to cover a long distance without much hassle... But.. yes but.. we were stopped by a couple of policemen from crossing the bridge of sholapur higway... So we moved ahead a little and again we were stopped :-(.. we could not find any place to park our vehicle and take an auto or cross the bridge on foot. so what.. we were stuck. Abhilasha suggested some other route and since we were happily taking a tour early morning we had all our enthusiasm on high and i took a U turn back to wanowrie.. But the route by which we came ( the shorter one ) was blocked by now and we had to take a longer route to go back [:-(] this was just the beginning...
On our way back we travelled over hills via corianthan club and reached NIBM after asking about 3-4 people on our way back.. By now I had covered 20 kms and petrol in my activa was running out :O.. Luckily we reached a petrol pump n i had preferred a Full tank ;).. [ kyun nahi masti to chadhi thi subah subah ghoomne ki :-P ].. petrol khatam hone se bhi rukne wale thode he the hum ;)...
Newaz now we took another route to office hoping that this route would be open. We crossed MG road, Inox, reached koregaon park.. via ABC farms to Mundwa... There to our astonishment we saw a road block... :-(
The traffic was stuck god knows why... and we could not move ahead... somehow i managed to crawl ahead... and reached the bridge which we had to cross to reach our office... But the luck was not favoring us... and may be god dint want us to reach so early..
it was already 11 AM by now.. and we could not take the way we knew.. instead we had to flow along with the crowd to the only exit we could see... And the best part was that we dint know where it would lead us :(... Anyways we were sure we just have to take a right turn and we will be nearing our office... So we went straight... n we went straight and straighter and straight ahead... yes we were going absolutely straight.. ( we could go nowhere else Damn!!! there was no left or right turn :( ) Then wat was at our left or right !!!?????
Well dont think i am kidding but i swear there were Fields as in proper Khet on both the side of the road that we took ( Yes!!! the straight one :) ).. I am sure they were Khet as i we could see bullock cart ploughing those fields :(... Not a single human on the road... all the cars n bikes that were ahead of us had vanished somewhere i dunt know where...
I asked Abhilasha should we go back but she was determined ki neha yahi kahi aage se right lenge to hum sholapur highway ko connect kar lenge.. I said ok and started speeding on that road .. oops STRAIGHT ROAD (singing.... hum tum chalne lage... chalne lage hai sang raste... ha ha ha manjil se behtar lagne lage hai ye raste :-P).. I saw on my left a milestone saying Manjri 5 km ahead :O.. ting...ting... i was like abhilasha hum pune mein the na... ye kaha aagaye... I actually stopped on my way as soon as i saw first living being there.. I asked him "bhaiya shola pur highway k liye kaha jaye" .. He was a bit far from me and made signs as if he did not hear me properly... I repeated again loudly this time "bhaiya sholapur highway kis taraf aayega" he made some signs again... :) By now I and Abhilasha had realized wat he was saying... he was making signs which indicated that " I am deaf and dumb.. I cannot hear or answer u "...
OhhhhGod... by now i felt i could cry... but Abhilasha made me strong and we decided again.. to go STRAIGHT :).. We covered 5 km to reach Manjri ( A Majri Sugarcane factory and some college came on our way..) then we saw an auto coming via kachcha road on right and he told us to tak this kachcha road in order to go to hadapsar.. We took it and started going STRAIGHT.. after about 2 kms we saw a milestone saying hadapsar 4 kms :)... Then there was a railway crossing CLOSED ofcourse :-P We waited there and once it was open we went ahead only to stop and inquire about route to magarpatta. An auto driver told something like a channel near school called sadhna.. them M college or something... we went ahead following the crowd.. took a right at an school (assuming this is Sadhna school) then came a chotu sa Pul (i mean it was the chotuest pul i have ever seen in my life - tat was the channel probably to what auto driver referred) Had there not been those ropes kind at its side i wud have actually dragged my activa over it rather than driving :), Anyways... we crossed it and there was this big dhalan such a steep drop and kachcha road near M.M college ;-).. I had to go down with both the brakes pulled hard :-P. Then there was a huge climb and then again a steep slope... we managed it together and reached a Mandir.. which actually looked familiar and i knew we are nearby.. By the way by now we had just crossed the bridge which we had reached in morning around 10 :). the time by now was 11:55 AM. Within 5 minutes we reched our office after crossing a slowly moving traffic. And by 12 Noon i had parked my activa and stopped. I cant tell you how tired i was by now... my shoulders were paining and i saw that from 9:30 AM till 12 noon - In 2 and a half hours i had travelled 50 kms :P.... to cover actual distance of 6 kms (from my home to office :)) which i usually cover in 12-17 minutes.
Tats it... not much thrill or adventure :) welll.. come on by now u all know wat i am capable of :-P...
Sorry for boring u guys... !!!! but i had to put it down as another adventure of mine :)...
Waiting for the next......