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.

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!

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.

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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KoDagu - 20101031

Been to KoDagu with my wife and friends.. It was a fun trip.

Days : 3 (30th & 31st of Oct, 1st of Nov)

Distance : 1000kms

People : 11 (Divya & LD, Sangeeta & Bhushi, Giri Bava, Vishwa PR, Suhas, Sandesha, Prashantha, Pallavi & Me).

Main places Covered: Chelavara Falls, Tadiyandamol, Tala cauvery.

Vehicle : TT

Photos will be updated soon.

redwood, crater lake

People: Sudharshan, Fahad, MS, Avati and /me

Distance: 1300miles

Date: 1st and 2nd August, 2009 (48hrs in total)

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Started off at 1:55AM from fremont. I took the car initially, headed towards, 880->101 and continued towards Fort Bragg. Took some nap there on curb side, and then headed towards Eureka, Orich, Cresent City..

Details of Redwood National and State Park:

* Kuchel Visitor Center

* Lady Johnson Tall Tree Grove

* Fern Canyon

* Scenic Drive

Camped at Mazama Village, Crater Lake, Oregon. Had soup and maggi. Later played cards too.. It rained in morning, thankfully there was no Thunder storm, (well, weather(dot)com predicted one). Travelled around Lake in Rim Drive. The Deep Blue water of Crater Lake was awesome.. Its till date the most wallpaper like place i saw.

We had booked Boat trip inside Lake, but due to previous day's lightening strike, there was some fire along the forest trail which takes us to down the lake, for boats. It got cancelled, and so we decided to leave early, and headed towards McCloud Falls.

We dived into water @ Lower McCloud Falls, and went below the falls. It was complete fun. Water was very cold, may be 7-8 degree Centigrade in temperature.

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bike trip to native & ಕಾನೂರು ಕೋಟೆ

me and Anil left to native on my enfield on 23rd. Overall travel on that day was 410kms.

on 25th, we went on bike trip to kaanooru koTe, 4 bikes, 8 people.
(me, anil, shreedaranna, saranga shrinaath, kaanle shrinaath, kanle raghanna, goLgodu aadarsha, kibacchalu ashwatta).

It was an amazing trip... more on it later.

Photos here

jog falls

This weekend I had been to JogFalls. It was great. Went to my native with Avati, Gururaj, Pramod, Jithamithra. It was surely a nice trip. Enjoyed every moment of it. Was quite busy these days, so badly needed a break. Surely this was a great break. Been to Gerusoppa Falls also

Trip to chickmagalur

It was nice trip. went to chickmagalur on saturday morning. Went to Hebbe falls through coffee estates's mud road. The jeep was going like a bullock cart. Had a nice time in hebbe falls, later went to Kemmannu gundi. Its a nice place. As no guest house was available, came back to chickmagalur and stayed in a lodge there. In night had a nice party with smirnoff, God actually became fan of smirnoff ;-)
Next day, ie on Sunday(24/04/05) went to Belur/Halebeedu. They are really a great piece of work. After seeing the temple there, went to a forest guest house called 'malaya marutha' at the beginning (at end to people coming from down) of Charmudi Ghat. That place was amazing. Too good. As every time I feel, felt so small in front of Nature. Nature is surely great. In night, we (me, Pammu and God[Prasad]) discussed a lot on future life, relationship and as usual girls :-P The discussions were at a high level (intelectually). Later got a bus to B'lore and came back to b'lore.