18/02/2021
10 Jan to 17 Jan 2021: Road trip to Rann of Kutch
Day 1
The ride started with 3 of us from Mumbai. We began our journey around 8.30 am with the family of our client bidding her farewell and flagging off our journey.
It was a first ever long ride for our client, so obviously the jitters and excitement were there. The riding was initially slow with us getting used to the weather, each other's riding style, speed, etc. Breakfast at Shree Datta gave us some much needed energy and also acted as an icebreaker between the 3 of us.
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway's road conditions are good but the irregular way of driving makes it difficult to ride smoothly in one lane and also quite time consuming.
We stopped to have the famous "Ubadiyu" at a dhaba by the road in Valsad. This delicacy is cooked in earthen pot over charcoal (chulha). It's all veggies like potato, sweet potato, beans, etc. The spices used are amazing and of course mouthwatering. Needless to say, we enjoyed and ate it to our heart's content.
We moved on and managed to reach Ankleshwar by 5 pm where we stopped for some tea, snacks and freshen up ourselves.
We once again started on our last leg of the day's journey to reach Ahmedabad. We managed to reach by 9.50 pm, just before the lockdown deadline of 10 pm.
Our friend welcomed us and hosted us in her home. We were treated to a lovely home cooked meal of daal khichdi, kadi, laddoos, etc.
Tired and drained of energy, we happily snored to glory till the next day.