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Naukuchiatal – Our home away from home
Allow me to say right away that this is not a travelogue. There are no well-planned itineraries, route charts, time/distance logs and so on. It is simply a collection of memories over the years – starting from ‘97 and still ongoing – all centering around Naukuchiatal and our visits there and places nearby. It is also about the joy and fun we have received from our pets – our boxers Darth, Daisy and later Kluso and Pearl – who have accompanied us often in our travels. Pearl, by the way, is that comparative rarity, a white boxer or checkered boxer, as they are called in the parlance. So if we have let slip a few photographs of our extended canine family – nothing to do with our travels – then we crave your indulgence! Put it down to that blind spot all parents have towards the family. You may notice that both of them have calluses around the elbows & the knees. We worried about this in the early years of pet ownership – till the vets put our minds at rest. Callous formation with the passing of years is quite normal & nothing to worry about. Some of the photos are from the early days of digital photography – the Sony Cybershot of the era was equipped with a floppy disc having 1.44MB storage! I used it for quite a while. So the photos are often of regrettable quality, apart from the fact that I’m just a point & shoot shutterbug, without serious aspirations! Therefore, to the really talented photographers on the forum (and there are several whose work I admire) I offer my apologies in advance.
I suspect that, like me, most other members here are car addicts for whom the journey itself - the drive - is the thing, and not so much the destination. But for us, Naukuchiatal is the exception that makes the rule! It is the one destination to which we always look forward to with anticipation - impatient for the drive to end. Also, we have never had a chauffeur, preferring to do our own driving at all times. And, after one major shunt on the Sitapur road outside Lucknow in 2012, we no longer drive after dark. My eyesight is not 6X6 now – I am 65 – and I happily accept that prudence is the better part of valour! So now we stick to dawn-to-dusk driving during our travels.
Allow me to say right away that this is not a travelogue. There are no well-planned itineraries, route charts, time/distance logs and so on. It is simply a collection of memories over the years – starting from ‘97 and still ongoing – all centering around Naukuchiatal and our visits there and places nearby. It is also about the joy and fun we have received from our pets – our boxers Darth, Daisy and later Kluso and Pearl – who have accompanied us often in our travels. Pearl, by the way, is that comparative rarity, a white boxer or checkered boxer, as they are called in the parlance. So if we have let slip a few photographs of our extended canine family – nothing to do with our travels – then we crave your indulgence! Put it down to that blind spot all parents have towards the family. You may notice that both of them have calluses around the elbows & the knees. We worried about this in the early years of pet ownership – till the vets put our minds at rest. Callous formation with the passing of years is quite normal & nothing to worry about. Some of the photos are from the early days of digital photography – the Sony Cybershot of the era was equipped with a floppy disc having 1.44MB storage! I used it for quite a while. So the photos are often of regrettable quality, apart from the fact that I’m just a point & shoot shutterbug, without serious aspirations! Therefore, to the really talented photographers on the forum (and there are several whose work I admire) I offer my apologies in advance.
I suspect that, like me, most other members here are car addicts for whom the journey itself - the drive - is the thing, and not so much the destination. But for us, Naukuchiatal is the exception that makes the rule! It is the one destination to which we always look forward to with anticipation - impatient for the drive to end. Also, we have never had a chauffeur, preferring to do our own driving at all times. And, after one major shunt on the Sitapur road outside Lucknow in 2012, we no longer drive after dark. My eyesight is not 6X6 now – I am 65 – and I happily accept that prudence is the better part of valour! So now we stick to dawn-to-dusk driving during our travels.
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