The Rambunctious Rambler » Road Trips http://mariselobo.com ...living life and loving it! Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:01:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Road Trippin and Trekking to Karnala http://mariselobo.com/2010/07/20/road-trippin-and-trekking-to-karnala/ http://mariselobo.com/2010/07/20/road-trippin-and-trekking-to-karnala/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:04:37 +0000 Marise http://mariselobo.com/?p=407 It has been ages since I have gone on a road trip and when Ryan asked me if I was interested in coming along I said yes! The plan was to head to Karnala on a short trip – there was no mention of a trek! But a trek there was thrown in for free :)   Now this does not pose a problem for me – I love the outdoors and need no excuse to head out – but for some other people who have not been out in the ‘wild’ for sometime, I am afraid there was a problem.

We met up in Andheri and rode/drove to Karnala. Thank you SP for the safe ride :)

My Ride
Navroze and Namrata
Benny and Kapil

Had a quick breakfast and headed up to the Bird Sanctuary – it was pathetic and sad to see the birds holed up in tiny cages. But the peacock put himself on display for us …… even the bedraggled feathers were a sight to behold. See for yourself.

The Peacock

Then came the surprise – The Trek! I knew at once that I was going to be in trouble. First I was NOT dressed for the hiker role (you will know soon what happens when you are not!) and I had not told SP that we were going hiking and was going to get grief for it :(

This is what we set our sights for – Karnala Fort.

The Target The Top

20 minutes onto the trail I was so badly bitten you could have played a game of “Join the Big Red Spots” on me! Lesson to self – always check if there is going to be a tramp through the forest.

However, I enjoyed myself to the hilt, just a I always do on these trips. Here are some pictures from the trip :)

The people who came on the trip
Navroze and his pretty wife Namrata Kapil and his bubbly wife Benaifer
Ryan and Khushnam SP et Moi

The creatures we met on the trip :)
The Crab
The Monkey
SP in action
The Fly

The view from the top – which made it all worth while


The Top
The view from top
The Edge

The last leap The other side
The gang

Our journey down was shorter that the up hill one, guess the basic needs of food and water came into play. We pigged out on yummy chicken, Kokam sherbat, rice rotis and skittles when we got back.

And finally with the man who made it all happen – Thank you Ryan
Ryand et Moi

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]]> http://mariselobo.com/2010/07/20/road-trippin-and-trekking-to-karnala/feed/ 3 With love from the Bishop’s Garden http://mariselobo.com/2010/04/26/with-love-from-the-bishops-garden/ http://mariselobo.com/2010/04/26/with-love-from-the-bishops-garden/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:28:10 +0000 Marise http://mariselobo.com/?p=398 On a recent trip to Ahmedabad, I had the great pleasure of meeting a Jesuit bishop who shares my love for plants. I was so thrilled to be in the Bishops’ Garden, that I spent quite a few tranquil hours just wandering around it. I also brought back quite a few plants and seeds. The Basil is growing nicely and the lettuce will be planted after the monsoons.

I sat among the Vinka

Sniffed the Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums

Plucked lettuce straight from the patch

In the lettuce patch

The baby tomato plants

Tomatoes

Took a walk through winding paths of the gardens …..



…. to Brother Lobo’s Green House (yeah I was really tickled by this)

Brother Lobo's Greenhouse

And finally with the Bishop Greenfingers himself :)

The Bishop

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They come from an album called “At the water’s edge”.

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Family Portrait The bride and her little flower girl Alyssa Michelle and Jordan Lyndon et Moi - Thank you for the lovely evening Sanket et Moi They danced the night away

Hope along here for some more

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I asked the car to come pick me up, picked up KJD and then headed to Vasai to pick up Virgil, Joel’s Mum and Granny. We might have gottten lost in Vasai itself if it had not be for Fr. Wendell who gave us precise directions to get to Ambadi – sitting in Nashik!

Loaded the car and set out for Nashik only to get LOST in Bhiwandi ….. just when it seemed like we had to call our long distance navigator again we managed to get on the right track and sped to Nashik.
On the Road to Nashik

We got to Nashik and promptly lost our way to the Novitiate – AGAIN! (maybe its a sign that we need to go there more often what say Tony V? ) A few phone calls and a motorcycle escort later we reached Sadhnalaya and our darling Joel :)

The motocycle escort

We dropped both the aunties there and headed to Sula Vineyards which is about a 15 minute drive from the Noviatiate.

Sula Sula Estate Virgil et Moi Sula Vines Wine selecting The Vats KJDs shot My case of wine :)

Lunch was at a local restaurant from where Wendell picked us up. I have never been to the Infant Jesus Shrine in Nashik and our trip there provided a perfect opportunity to pay a visit.

Infant Jesus Shrine - Nashik The spider that facinated us

I fell in love with some pottery and had to stop and buy. I ended up buying a lot of stuff which I belatedly realized that I had to cart all over Nashik!!!!

The wind chimes

We then drove to MPSM along long beautiful winding roads. After an exotic supper we tucked in for the night in anticipation of the long drive through rural Maharashtra the next day.

We had a short mass and headed out. We ended up driving hundreds of kilometers in the interiors of Maharashtra all the way to Ambatta and back. We visited two Jesuit mission stations, heard the stories, learned about the plant kingdom from the two Botanists we were traveling with, the shocking tale of some political lobby’s plan to submerge a whole valley to build a mammoth dam and the hope filled story of the idea of building hundreds of smaller dams that will be connected to each other thereby enabling pumping of water from dams that have filled up to those that have not at no risk  of displacing people.

Getting set for the road trip The Dam Green Maharashtra On the road Filling up The Valley Pointing out the Valley

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