A snap, slightly, or maybe even by a bigger magnitude, adulterated by post processing (for the better or worst, you decide) by me, taken at some place in between the Alappuzha - Kollam Road.
We were lazing along, it was about sunset, when we passed a strip of road which lay so adjacent to the sea (around 50-100 metres from it) so that you feel you're driving across a shore. We looked at each other, and instinctively, I pulled over, and we went on to imbibe in the sunset. A sense of calmness swept over and overwhelmed us, and as I stood on the wall of rocks, against the wind, one of my favourite lines by Ernesto Guevara resonated in my head.
We were lazing along, it was about sunset, when we passed a strip of road which lay so adjacent to the sea (around 50-100 metres from it) so that you feel you're driving across a shore. We looked at each other, and instinctively, I pulled over, and we went on to imbibe in the sunset. A sense of calmness swept over and overwhelmed us, and as I stood on the wall of rocks, against the wind, one of my favourite lines by Ernesto Guevara resonated in my head.
..we would look out over the immense sea, full of white flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams..
Rahul was on a small road trip from Calicut to Trivandrum which would amount to some 400 odd kilometres, and I joined from my home, where he stopped for a small breakfast. We kept to the coastal route, Calicut - Ponnani - Cochin - Alappuzha - Kollam - Trivandrum.
The only resolution was that there would be no race against time or no deadline set to reach our destination. We allowed ourselves to be distracted easily, resulting in us giving in many a times to the lure of signboards from the Kerala Tourism Department - Cherai Beach and Varkala for example. There were a lot of pit stops, and the prickly summer heat didn't help either. What helped the cause were some great music, stretch of very good roads, sunday traffic, and discussions, from football and movies to the subject we were experts on in our own right - our lives, and silence.
Oh, and I am separately mentioning Google Maps. Its a gift to mankind.
Quite contrary to my presumptions, most of the road we covered turned out to be very good. If you ask me to pick up the best stretch it would be Ernakulam - Alappuzha.
Sheer bliss!
Also, there were a lot of milestones and boards with directions put all along the route and in places where their placing makes sense, and these help you a LOT.
Here's Rahul, with his hard earned coffee from a roadside shack near Alappuzha.
He says hi.
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