For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find globe granite underfoot, strewn with cutting flints….
The hardest part of going on a trip is planning, but then again the best trips are those that aren’t planned. I happened to be lucky enough to be part of one such unplanned trip from Bangalore to Pune along the Konkan coast. 1600 k.m. of blissful madness and 5 k.g. of excess weight at the end of 5 days that took me through Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra. All it needed was a 14 year old zen, a couple of maps and three college students who had absolutely no idea how they were going to go about ensuring they got back to Pune that year!
