Trip to Dhanushkodi:day2

September 2nd, 2010 by Rider | 1 Comment | Filed in Cars, News, Travelogues

Trip to Dhanushkodi : Day 2: Day before the big day

Explorers: Martin Jacob and Crew

I was so tired of last day’s journey that I slept till 9.00 am in the morning. My sweet dream was ended by the noise of TV, mixer and what else. I was very angry, then suddenly it came to my mind that this is not my room and I cannot shout to reduce the noise. I slowly and sleepy went to the living room to find what the heck was happening. My brother’s wife had prepared hot tea for me; the hotness was long by then.

Having the tea I sat beside my brother to get an idea about the trip and who all are coming. I knew all the trip mates except one. Oh let me introduce the trip mates.

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Trip to Dhanushkodi – Day 1

September 1st, 2010 by Rider | 1 Comment | Filed in Cars, Travelogues

Day 1: The Preparation

One fine evening I got a call from my brother “We are going for trip to Dhanushkodi. Are you interested…? “. At that point I didnt knew what or where Dhanushkdodi was. Kenney (brother) told me that he is going from Ernakulam to Trivandrum and we can start the journey from Trivandrum. That day I packed my bags and went with him to Trivandrum.

Trip with Lancer

Our Lancer

We started the journey to Trivandrum at about 11 pm (Kottayam and Trivandrum is about 200km apart). The 10 year old Mitsubishi Lancer (my brother`s) which had a mileage of 2 Lakh kilometer performed like a war horse.I have realy thank mitsubishi for a very nice vehicle like this. Even though the car was 10yrs old, she was performing like a brand new car even better than our new Ford Ikon. In the Erattupetta-Ettumanoor road we touched speed of 100km/hr. We couldn’t maintain that speed because our cars light was not that good and vehicles coming opposite to us was not dimming their light. Upto Chenganoor we had the problem of bad roads and reckless drivers, after Chenganoor the roads where good. By good I mean that it was well maintained with no gutters, wide and with all the reflectors in place. In that strech I was able to get the maximum output of our car and it was touching 130 to 120 km/hr (sorry bro you were sleeping). Lancers suspension is so well designed that even at 120km/hr it didnt had had any vibes and i was able to go through the curves easily. Around 12.30 AM we stopped at Adoor for a small tea break. 12.45 we resumed the journey; rest of the journey was smooth. We reached Trivandrum around 3.00AM.

Trip to Dhanushkodi : Day 2: Day before the big day

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