Tag: journey
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Thanksgiving in Chicago.
Thanksgiving is the time when you are grateful for all the good things in life.I am very thankful for the week-long break that I got in the hectic life. Being in Ames, which is a small town makes you want to go out and explore. So for the break we 9 friends decided to do a…
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Goa: Beyond Beaches
The semi-sleeper bus reached the vacant streets of Panaji market early in the morning on a chilly December morning. I got down to be surrounded by a number of rickshaw wallas and taxi drivers. Somehow managed to get out of the crowd and grabbed a pilot(a two wheeler taxi) to reach the base camp which…
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Cycling Expedition: Jaisalmer
The sound of my cell phone woke me up, I checked the screen to find that it was just 4:30 am. The hostel room was dark and people were snoring in a funny rhythm . The late night talks with people in the common area of the over the Champions League football match had not…
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Food and Friendship in Jodhpur
This trip to Jodhpur back in December 2014 was like a big thing for me. I was done with my semester exams for second year of engineering, so we friends had decided to go Pondicherry, something offbeat, rather than going to Goa . However, due to some stupid difference of opinion among us(over which we…
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A night at the peak ‘KALSUBAI’.
We 3 friends decided to go to Kalsubai peak. Upon planning we left Pune a 6:00 am and reached Baari at around 10:30 am.Trekking is the best part. It took us 5 hours to reach the peak from Baari(the base village). All the people who had started earlier during the day were returning back while…
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Backpacking beginning.
This journey was all about this to that. From cancelled pondicherry trip to the actual Jodhpur backpacking trip. From Pune to Jaisalmer. From meeting college friends to making new friends. From cycling 250km in a month in Pune to cycling around 250 km in 4 days in the desert. Going from dark to darker,healthy to…
Shubham Khoje 