DECCAN BY ROAD.....

It was almost certain that it would be my last breathe of air I inhaled in Hyderabad in the near future. I could'nt quite take the thought of moving to bhopal for a couple of months ( phew! glad i'll be back to vizag once my engineering college starts) on the account of dad's transfer. Nevertheless as the last day arrived when i had to bid adieu to hyd. I did'nt find it that difficult as I thought it would be for me, rather a new perspective engulfed me.I started looking forward upon the journey we were to undertake from Hyderabad to Bhopal with a night halt at Nagpur.Mom woke me early in the morning on 12'th so that we can start off early. As soon as we braced ourselves and let behind our neighbors waving bye at us, I was on a SMS spree letting all my riends know about my departure and that i wont have my cell with me any more too. Sob sob.....We did speed of pretty well before it got hot and managed to reach Adilabad by about 11:30 in the afternoon when we started at 5:45 from Hyderabad. Adilabad outskirts was the last when i saw sign boards is telugu. Later we entered Maharashtra around noon. It was clearly marked by change of topography. To me the rocks resembled as the age old remains of lava flow due to a volcanic eruption.Now people out there should excuse me for my ignorance but I only reported what i felt like seeing those huge, lifeless, black and brownish carpet like rock structure. It has nothing to do with any scientific or geological knowledge.As soon as we entered Maharashtra mom dad were keen to scale maximum miles the same day by taking a shorter route avoiding Nagpur. The Nagpur highway was'nt that good. It was rugged eroded and very bumpy. We stoped at a nearby dhaba and checked out what was available for lunch.The south indian food was already replaced by parathas already on the menu. As i predicted my health freaky mom would order something like curd rice, she jsut made my predictions true. Just as I put up a sulky face for having curd rice and trying to slip a few spoons under my table to a stray dog, a battalion of Bison regiment coming from Jabalpur halted their trucks near the same dhaba. I was glad to see them as i knew that the Bison regiment would go and report at secunderabad near my former house as that was their base. How i longed to go back to hyderabad with them :( We soaked our handkechief and towels to save us from the heat wave, but to my surprise they got dry just within 3 minutes after we resumed our journey.We took the Yavothmal road. Travelling against the central india's heat wave at noon wasnt a good idea. Yet i crouched in the back seat of my car and just gazed out of the window as my dad drove along the comparatively less bumpy road. It was a lot more greener than the actual highway to Nagpur (the part of the road before we took the detour) . As we neared yavothmal a saw a huge ITC outlet in the outskirts of the city and was quite amazed to find it there. I didnt see anything like that down south and was dumbstruck that some remote place had something as big as that.(am not sure if yavothmal is a remote place in the first place, so dont grunt at me if am wrong... :) ) . From

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