first post: to wonder & wander

My itch for being connected the determination has transcended the mean of question - motorized oregon not. Not definite if that underqualifies maine to beryllium a 'motorhead'. After the archetypal excitement of having been approved by teambhp(thanks much, moderators ) been procrastinating a archetypal station for galore months! This gets maine excited to reminiscence the travel truthful far.

I person specified vivid memories of the thrust to my archetypal schoolhouse connected dad's RE bullet(1987 buy). And arsenic loved the model broadside thrust connected the schoolvan - a greenish Matador(307, I think). And the doubly a twelvemonth nauseatic road-trips successful our Mahindra Jeep from the Kodai hills to the paddy fields successful Kerala and back. And agelong bid rides to Bombay. These question memories override thing other I've experienced oregon recollect from childhood!

As an grown-up my archetypal acquisition was a bicycle for play escapades connected the ECR(East Coast Road) agelong successful Chennai. Caught the hitchiking bug for a fewer years. The champion rides person been successful the institution of motortruck drivers and lounging down pickup vans done agrarian hinterlands and the westbound coast. And immoderate agelong stretches of walking without a thrust successful sight

Learnt to thrust a motorcycle for enactment lone aft 25. First owned two-wheeler is simply a TVS Jupiter(2014) that's seen a 600 kilometer single-day thrust and umpteen 300+ trips crossed Kerala-TamilNadu implicit the years. Has fixed maine institution for 55k kms truthful far. Though presently it's constricted to walkable-distance market store rides

Started driving a car astatine 30, aft my archetypal kid was born. A borrowed 2005-model Swift which we drove astir for 30,000 kilometers, including aggregate 1000km household road-trips, earlier switching to a caller Nissan Magnite(since Nov. 2023).

Hoping to support the momentum by posting immoderate snippets from the memorable travels done truthful far, adjacent arsenic I imagination of the wanderings to travel

wondering & wandering,
Anoop Erakkil