It all started when I was planning for this trip couple of weeks ago..! The moment when I started from my home at that point I am not sure how much success this Road trip will end up to be…, but my heart was pumping with excitement for this fun filled and excited exploration of new places by road and it is happening on my mean machine. This trip is entirely different from the trips that were there earlier in my life. I was part of many exploring trips with my friends earlier but this time it is entirely with my personal family members. Not sure how the roads are and not sure about the planning and driving conditions. Having decided about the trip in jus few minutes when mom and dad along with my wife nodded head for this wonderful expedition.
It was long week end break for which I was anticipating since long, considering in lieu of Diwali got a 4 days break; I tried to utilize the best of that unlike warming up my couch or sitting in front of TV. My main motto was to drive down in Nallamala forest area (Ghat section specially). So considering that I planned my journey into 4 days slashing each day to cover different places while taking a break at one point to stay overnight. Thanks to my dad who managed to arrange everything right from accommodation to Darshan in temples. With very few hours left before starting of our trip we are forced to wrap our luggage and push as much as we can to start early to hit the roads and to take the top speed of our car. Pulled in as much luggage and other basic necessities into car, fuelled the car fully, ensuring full air in all Tyres along with spare Tyre in perfect condition. Our first destination to reach from Hyderabad is Nandyala via Kurnool. We took NH7 road from Miyapur via ORR and started our journey at 2 P.M. This is for first time I am driving on NH7 Bangalore Highway and its awesome road to drive. Within 3 hours time I managed to cover 250kms stretch (Hyderabad to Kurnool) at top speed of 120KMPH in my car. We were little perplexed about the route to Nandyala and finally took it from Kurnool by pass road. Kurnool to Nandyala is ghat section and the patch of road is in repair and rework stage. Managed to cover that 60kms stretch in 1 and half hour time and by 6.30 PM reached our guest house (TGP guest house). Finally gave break after drive of 300kms stretch, completed our dinner little early that day and moved into my couch little early as we have multiple plans to be executed for next day. So making our base as Nandyala we planned to explore nearby temples and visiting places for Day 2.
Will write up in detail how did our exploration of new places in Day 2 continued in my next episode
Keep watching this page till then J
Luv
Pranav
