Aug 10 2007 Fri 6 pm. After missing the last night
drive that
Azmi and Rishi went to, I wanted to
go for a night drive too, and Azmi was happy to oblige.
At 10pm, I was at his house. We opened up Google Maps, MapMyIndia and the Weather.com. We decided
to drive to Yercaud which was a good 205 km from
It involved Hosur Road, NH7 and NH68. Things looked good.
At 11pm, we decided to sleep for a couple of hours, get up at 1am, and start driving by 2am. We set
the alarms and dozed off.
Azmi wakes me up at 2.15am. We’re late. We realize that both of us didn’t set the alarm properly on
our mobile phones. Luckily, we didn’t wake up too late. As usual, Azmi, the chef, cooked something
fast and satisfying – boiled corn and maggi.
At 3 am, we took out his Pulsar and started driving.
During the onward journey, Azmi did most of the driving, because he was more enthu, and I am not
that used to night driving yet. Besides, there was just way too much lorry traffic on the road.