Almost a day after returning from the Chennai – Yercaud and back trip which almost seemed like eternity
To start with, got together at the rendevouz point at 5 in the morning, our boy was late and finally started at 6.
Had a flat tyre. just 25 kms off chennai. Then came an engine problem, it was already 4 hours and we had covered distance only till kanchipuram. Started again and had this Engine blowout.
One day and so many mechanical problems oh! But the breakdowns sort of got everybody together and was more fun in a way than riding
The car that came along also had a flat tyre. The one bike that survived the ods seemed to be the le-pederosa. Reached krishnagiri with tow…. Then came the most purposeful part of the entire journey. The Salem – Krishangiri stretch. All of us were steadily negotiating the journey when right in front of us was a CAT 2 accident. A Swamiji was hit in his Tata Sierra.
Stopped our convoy and i feel that the whole purpose of our delay was to be there at that moment to rescue that person. Had it not been for our gang, things could have gone bad.

What a lesson to learn. Just because things are going bad, in no was means God is not with you, it just means God wants you to be at some place at some particular time and is preparing you for the journey.

Reached Yercaud in about 1:00 AM a jouney that generally taked 5.5 hours took us 21 hours, but the purpose now seemed more clear. The final climb of 20 hair pins at half past midnight was probably the best ascents i ever did.
Got to the room that was painted like ‘mera walah green’ )) All of us were tired but did not want to miss the timing so sat together and were chatting chatting chatting.
Then came our macho man we had along with us a few fresher kids who were now ragged at 2AM these guys were made to dance like the tamil numbers in Sun Music It was fun and fun to watch it.
Got to sleep at around 4AM. Decided to go to church so got back at 6AM.

Went to St. Joseph’s church. I think i was late by 15 minutes Father Arogya Rayar was leading the mass. One thing that was very noticable in the congregation was that there was some radiance even in the ‘economically under powered community’ (wrong term, but using for lack of knowledge of another one) that this church had. There was greater peace.
The father prayed for me He was spectacularly simple in his prayer. It was like so nice to listen to.
Came back to the room. The gang was still sleep thinking Got all up. Had breakfast….. Rode to a few places in Yercaud. Beutiful place.
The mountains seemed so much like a icing cake on earth, and we fail especially me have failed to appreciate this beuty in life. But better late than never. and just like my friend recently reminded me ‘Be the change you want to be’

Came back to krishnagiri to get the bike that had engine blowed up. Loaded on a truck and rode behind it.
On the way back overtook a Mercedez benz car )) but what was to be seen that he was in 90kmph at cruise control so was humble enough to fuel our bullet ego and let us overtake for few kms. Then zipped past us with a majestic reminicent of the 3star logo

Was already feeling too dizzy by now. Dizzy Dizzy and Dizzy. 3 days with less than 3 hours of sleep was already making me a red eyed man. The entire convoy of guys were close together after the series of breakdows we had on the onward journey…. Notable the return journey was smooth no hiccups.
Reached home at around 11:00 or so.

Went to sleep.

The best thing was that we were there to save an accident victim, that seemed to be the only purpose and not yercaud anymore.

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