Started the day (23-Sep-2011) with a visit to the famous Shiva temple at Gokarna. Good start to my birthday. Today’s journey started off with good roads. Me like. From Gokarna, we headed towards Karwar where we had breakfast, and stopped by the lovely empty Karwar beach: And passed over

After the mrs. got surfing lessons in Mulki, we left early morning on 22-Sep-2011 from Mulki. Immediately, the roads started getting bad. Every few metres, there were potholes and big ones too. We stopped to have breakfast at Udupi. And after some distance, we suddenly revved into the road next

We are staying at the Hare Krishna Ashram a.k.a. Ashram Surf Retreat for the past 2 days (20-Sep-2011 to 21-Sep-2011). The wife wanted to learn surfing. It’s amazing how much surfing is picking up in India especially with a lot of surfing, including competitions, happening in Mahabalipuram.

After KTM, the next day (19-Sep-2011) we did a road trip from Mysore to Mulki (SH7 and NH48). We started the day with a visit to the auspicious Ranganath Swamy Temple at Srirangapattana and headed out via Pandavapura → Krishnarajpet → Channarayapattana → Hassan → Sakleshpur. We had lunch at Sakleshpur, which is a