It was 1st of October 2009 Thursday, an odd day if considered in the IT life, because most of the event which happens in software professional’s life fall between Friday and Sunday. But as the next day i.e. 2nd October 2009 was a holiday and we were getting a long weekend of 3 days I just came up with an idea of having a day out program on the 2nd just like a road trip. I proposed this plan to my society friends in the morning and by noon everyone agreed on this. It took noon to get the response as some of them get up at 12 and instead of wishing them good morning we have to wish them good afternoon. Then at night we gathered over a coffee and decided where all we can go. As per the plan we agreed on going to Lohgad, Karle & Bhaje caves and if possible visiting some of the spots near Lonavala.
We were a group of 5 friends. Myself (Bhushan), Akshay, Saaket, Tushar and Sameer. 
One of our friends Sagar couldn’t make his visit to this trip as he was busy with the presentations which he had to present in his college. We had decided that we would be leaving our society at 6:30am so that we could get some more time to spend together as we had to return by dinner time and had decided to take dinner at our own home. But as always there has to be something or the other in between a perfect plan. As Sameer was going to come to Pune on the 2nd from
After having some good stuff we again were ready to hit the road. The road was too awesome. We were not coming below a speed of 80 on that road. I was driving my Pulsar, Saaket had his Glamour and Tushar was driving his XCD. Now everyone thought that they would show off by accelerating their bikes and crossing the speed limits which they normally won’t cross. Hence we had some sort of a short race on that awesome road and it’s not required to mention who the champion was, as it was me (Pulsar). We were double seat and had reached 100 on full throttle. Actually we could have gone farther than that but it was of no need as 100 was sufficient for the other bikes to show who was Definitely Male. As we were heading towards Lonavala we thought that all of us should have our PUC and as I was not having mine we entered a petrol pump and got our PUC. He just took out a card and wrote our bike number on it with some readings on his own. He didn’t even check my bike for the pollution level. Seeing this I also got the PUC done for my mother’s PEP, father’s splendor and Akshay too got the PUC for his Kinetic, even though we didn’t had the bikes there. We just gave him the bike number and he gave us the PUC done. 
After stuffing those PUC cards in our pocket we got on the road and reached Malavali from where he had to go to Lohgad.
On reaching the foot of Lohgad we could see some of the groups playing under waterfall and at that moment we hoped we too could have got some extra clothes and enjoyed the fresh water falls. Then we parked our bikes and started the trek for Lohgad. It was an awesome place to visit. 
After that we went to Bhaje caves which was very near Lohgad. These caves too were good and we clicked some photos with some unique poses. There was a small waterfall near the Bhaje caves where we went and where Tushar had a nice fall on the green rocks (sluggish rocks). His entire jeans got stuffed with that stuff and he got his pant washed in the same waterfall. Climbing the caves and the fort was fun. Those of us who go weekly to climb Parvati could feel the difference here. We were climbing nonstop while the others were just not able to catch up their breath while climbing. They always required to get a halt and drink water.
After finishing these two spots we went to Lonavala and had our lunch there. The hotel in which we entered was nice too. We had taken south Indian food and Misal along with it. How can one forget to buy Chikki after visiting Lonavala? Actually Lonavala is a bit extra famous for the Chikki. Among 10 shops on the road 6 would be the chikki shops, 2 would be hotels and the rest 2 would be some other shops. Thus we entered A1 chikki shop and got some nice chikki from there. Just to describe you we got Groundnut crush, Elaichi crush and dry fruit chikki. We ate some over there and got the rest packed for family. It was almost 3 pm and hence we decided that we would directly go to Bhushi dam. On the way to Bhushi dam we also saw Lonavala dam.
The dam was huge but as it was not having much water it was not looking much huge. Then we reached Bhushi dam and got our bikes parked for some nominal charge and started going towards the Dam wall. Initially we were allowed to go over the dam wall but now they had closed down the path due to some of the incidents which had happened over the past. Now we could only see the water and enjoy the water flowing from far distance. There too we took some photos and rested for some time as this was the last spot which we could have finished for that day. After enjoying the nature we finally came back to our bikes and prepared ourselves for our return journey.
While returning we decided that we would go home by the Pune – Mumbai bypass road, i.e. the one which goes from Hinjewadi. This is the actual route which the buses going for Mumbai take and halt at Hinjewadi. Again as the road was clean and clear again we accelerated till a speed of 100 km/ hr and stopped for coffee at some place near Pimpri. At that time we finished off all the eatables which we had taken along with us including biscuits, cakes, and chocolates and after refreshing ourselves with a nice cup of coffee and biscuits we then ultimately reached our society at around 7 pm. The road trip was a nice trip with a distance of 175 km. thus I had driven 175 km in one day, 7am to 7pm and also enjoyed all the spots which we visited in between. On reaching home we had a nice bath with warm water and after dinner again got together to view the photos at Saaket’s house. After transferring the photos I came home and just entered my bed and gave all spare parts of my body which were misplaced especially the parts of back some rest and had a nice sleep.
