Goa Trip!

I love long drives have been driving for couple of years. For official or with friends picnic it has become so normal driving long drives. Though the trips may not be that far from Chennai to Bengaluru, Madurai Kanyakumari, Pondicherry. Its always short trips and we often used to swap between friends while driving so we don't get tired during our travel. One time me & Solo decided to go to Goa only both of us driving. That time he was in business and I was working at that time may be around 2016. We reached Bengaluru in the night and made a surprise visit to meet Reuben and his family on his wedding anniversary we stayed that night and started early morning from Bengaluru to Goa. The Highway between Bengaluru to Goa was nice and also our journey was in the morning so we were ripping really fast on the highway. While we almost reached Goa when we were going through one forest/mountain kind of place we didn't have any signals to navigate and we found it so difficult. To add fuel to the fire the diesel was literally about to be emptied we were just crossing the fingers hoping to reach the main road where we could locate any petrol bunk. To our surprise when its about to fully drain we found the petrol bunk and we reached in the evening. As we both of us were tired we went out for dinner and we came early to sleep. I think we went during off season so there wasn't much crowd but still the normal party scenes was happening. We both were like wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time. Both of us don't drink don't party that’s the place don't know why we planned first of all. We wanted to drive so long so we planned for it. Suddenly next day after lunch Solo said lets leave as its boring. Yesterday only we reached after a long drive also we didn't sleep a take rest. Normally I used to sleep min 2 or 3 hours before any drive that day we didn't take any rest. We started and I started to drive from Goa till Tumkur that itself was approx 494kms almost 9 hours drive and then I gave it to Solo to drive. He drove for a while and in a toll he tried to overtake a lorry and to which the driver got angry and he purposefully came and bumped in our car. That time my car was new and used to maintain well without scratches not like how its maintained now. He got upset and said he is not driving and gave it to me. Our plan was to go to Reuben's home in Bengaluru and rest and restart back to Chennai. When we were about to reach Bengaluru we called Reuben and he didn't pick up the phone so we thought lets go non stop to Chennai. I was already exhausted driving all th way from Goa to Tumkur and Bengaluru. After we crossed the Hosur we stopped for Dinner and we thought lets take a nap and we stopped near one of the tolls and slept. We thought we had slept for some half an hour, when my Mom called to check whether u guys reached chennai that’s when we know we slept more than 4 or 5 hours. After that Solo started to drive non stop and he drove so fast as I have to be in office in the afternoon. He drove too fast and we reached on time. This trip I will never forget. As I often used to tell we need to drive so long, but after this travel experience and the hectic drive and the tiredness in the journey. I made a clear decision no matter how urgent it can be without a proper sleep never going for a long drive. This is one another drive which I will remember for a long time, hope solo also remembers it.