Practice Ride: To Sagara and Back : Sept 3rd and 4th, 2016

Decided to go to native on bike, alone.

Distance covered in 2 days: 820kms

Went to Sagara, came back next day in same route. Had no rains while going, but faced small durations with rainfall while coming back.

Practice ride: Muthatti Forest - Aug 15th, 2016

Me and Shishir decided to go on a practice ride (for our forthcoming NorthEast trip).

Left at 6:30am, came back at 11:30am. Covered 190kms.

Me in my Enfield, he took KTM 398.

Took it easy, not many stops.

Practice bike ride for Manali -> Leh (2015, June 7th).

Started from Bangalore by 9:45am, left towards Mysore. Road was almost packed. Went to Srirangapatna, and changed route plan to visit ShravanabelagoLa as blr-mys road was not so pleasant for the ride. It turned out to be a very nice decision. The road was good, greenery on the side. Hit Mangalore-> Bangalore highway, reached home back by 4:45pm.

Total distance covered: ~350kms
Time: 7hrs

Flying experience @ Jakkur (12th April, 2015)

The experience of flying is really nice. Tried this @  Jakkur aerobase with Agni Aero Sports Academy.

Thanks to Capt. Aravind Sharma, the experience was awesome. 

Aeroshow 2015 (20th Feb, 2015)

Been to Aeroshow 2015 with Achintya, Pallavi and Amma.

Photos of the event here.

Savanadurga (KA, India) - 2015, Jan 31st

Gold's Gym organised the trek. Started early in the morning from Gym. Approx 30 people.

Small trek of 3 hours (up and down). Enjoyed the trip as there were some activities.

Photos will be updated soon.

Districts of karnataka - 11th - 17th Aug

6days, 2700km, 2 people, 2 states, 22 district headquarters, and one hell of a trip...

It was a great trip. We visited all the district post office (barring Mysore)*

SN. District - Pincode

01. Ramanagar - 562159

02. Mandya - 571401

03. Mysore - (570001)*

04. Madikeri - 571201

05. Mangalore - 575005 (we visited this post office, which is not head postoffice)

06. Udupi - 576101

07. Karwar - 581301

08. Belgaum - 590001

09. Bagalkot - 587101

10. Bijapur - 586101

11. Gulbarga - 585101

12. Bidar - 585401

13. Yadgir - 585201

14. Raichur - 584101

15. Bellary - 583101

16. Koppala - 583231

17. Gadag - 582101

18. Dharwad - 580001

19. Haveri - 581110

20. Davanagere - 577001

21. Chitradurga - 577501

22. Tumkur - 572101

23. Bangalore Urban - **** (Haven't visited any postoffice, but back home)

Missing:
1. Chamarajanagar
2. Shimoga
3. Chikmagalur
4. Hassan
5. Kolar
6. Chikballapur
7. Bangalore Rural (Doddaballapur)

Mysore - 21-23rd Feb, 2014

It was one of the few trips where only me and pallavi did a trip.

Trip was focused on showing Animals (mainly elephant, tiger, bear and birds) to our son. Stayed in Royal Archid, Metropole. Visited Kukkarahalli lake, and had lake side dinner at 'Silent Shores'.

A well deserved trip.

Humcha, Hosanagara trip with School friends - 2014 Jan 18th and 19th.

Distance : 789km
Time : ~33hrs (2pm on 18th left BLR, came back by 11pm on 19th)
Vehicle: Innova (I drove the full stretch)
People : 7-8 (one got added for return trip)



It was overall fun as the trip was mostly about talking 20 year old stories of school days.

Stayed at Prakash's home @ Humcha. Attended Punith's wedding @ Kargadi (karanagiri). Visited temples of Humcha, and Backwater @ Kargadi. Took a motorboat ride. Overall a fun trip.

Bheemeshwara - 2014 Jan 3rd

This was done as a trip to take my wife out on her birthday. I had heard about the place a lot of times, but never had got a chance to visit it even though it was < 60kms from my native.

This time, as I was jobless, made sure I have time for visiting this place. Went there with my wife, son, a cousin (Pooja) and aunt (Anita). Had taken food from home, but if one needs, the priest's family can prepare the food.

It is one of the really nice/calm place at the core of western ghats.

Enjoyed the trip! and bath in the cold, serene water of Bheemeshwara.

http://www.discovershimoga.com/bheemeshwara-temple.html has some info of the place!

North Karnataka Trip with Gowda (26th, 27th, 28th of Dec, 2013)

Sondur's marriage was the reason to start this journey. It was our first trip as partners @ our new venture.

Total reading on the trip meter at the end of it was 1375kms (in ~65hrs).


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Bluff - Shivanasamudra (Gagana chukki) - 20130818

Total distance covered 224 Kms on my Innova. Total of 8 ppl, (Me, Pallavi, Achintya, Shreedhar Tumballi, Bhagya, Adhya, Nagaraj(aka, Raju), Mahima).

Very small trip, stayed there for just ~1hr or so...

Huthridurga (ಹುತ್ರಿದುರ್ಗ ) - 2013June29

Target : An Easy trek for the beginners
People : Red Hat colleagues (27 in number including me).
Transport : Bus

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Photos from MS Vishwanath Bhat's Album

Photos from Avra

Photos from VarunM and RameshA

ಹೊಳೆ ಊಟ - 31st March, 2013

 Went to hoLe ooTa (which mean, have a lunch near the water :p) with whole of the village (~120 people, including kids). It was totally fun. swimming was unlimited, including hot sun bath  :-) Food was really good, had 8 jahangeer in total.

It was Achintya's (our son, 8months old) first outing as such. He seemed to enjoy both water and nature.

Overall, good times.

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Chikmagalur - 25th Feb, 2012

MullayanaGiri aka, BababuDangiri (24th Feb, 2012) : Drove the car till the top. It was already late, and was bit scared to drive the WagonR on that road when its dark, hence came down. Went there with Pallavi and Amma.

KemmannuGunDi (26th Feb, 2012): Went through the Estate Rd to Kemmannu GunDi. Nice scenic road, but was horrible on a WagonR. Took 3hrs for covering 30kms. Went with Pallavi.

Nandi Hills - 16102011

People : Nagaraj AH, Madura (Both are Pallavi's cousins), Pallavi and me. Vehicle : My Enfield, Naga's Yamaha FZ-R Highlights: My first early morning visit to Nandi Hills. It was pleasant morning over there. While coming back, Pallavi rode my bike for more than 10kms and it was her first riding the enfield. She liked it, and I should say I can give her riding control in any of my bike trips ;-) no mistakes done, and I am pleased.

skandagiri

People : Guru, Saryati, Samrat, Chandru, Pallavi and me.
Vehicle : 2 Cars (i20, Logan)
Distance : 70kms from Bangalore (one way), 5kms off Chikballapur)

Left Bangalore @ 4am. Back by 12:15.. could manage to be on top by sunrise.

BiLikal Hill (ಬಿಳಿ ಕಲ್ಲು ಬೆಟ್ಟ)

Also called as 'Rangaswamy Betta'

Map info here: http://goo.gl/maps/TD1S

Will update the photos later.

People: 8 (Guru, Pallavi, me, Aditya, Haridas, Mahendra, Poorna, Sal).
Vehicle: 2 (one hired sumo, another guru's logan).
Distance: ~60kms from bangalore.

A trip around the linganamakki back waters - 22012011

A trip around the linganamakki backwaters on a 2 wheeler (Pulsar 150) with my wife. Not any kind of 'trip' type travel, but had to visit couple of relative's houses. Left home @ Hosalli on 22nd Jan, and came back on 23rd Jan, 2011.

The road which we took looks something like http://goo.gl/maps/sd0q but from Nittor to Sagar, there is a short cut, which goes on ferry @ place called 'Hasiru makki'.

It was almost a 200kms journey and all through it was green. We missed my enfield for its comfort of long drive. Other than that, the trip was nice.

HoLe oota - 26/12/2010 (ಹೊಳೆ ಊಟ)

People : 18 (16 Adults + 2 minors) (Ashwini Tumballi, Prasanna, Shreedhar Tumballi, Bhagya, Divya Tumballi, Ganesha, Amar Tumballi, Pallavi, Raju, Mahima, {Sreenatha Saranga, Anupama, Son}, {Rohit KanDika, Pushpa, Daughter}, Anil, Srinath aka Arun Kanle.

Place : GubbagoDu / GinDimane

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