Me, akash, daya and Mayur had planned to leave to delhi on 18th november. Thankfully our tickets were on Air India and not Jet(coz for a few days before 18th , jet pilots were on strike).
We left to Airport at around 3:30 am. and reached Delhi at 10 a.m
Adarsh and Sunil had already reached Delhi( he had come from his native place). He had also picked the vehicle and came to the airport to pick us up. From airport we reached the vehicle owners office and paid advance, picked some food, picked an empty can for diesel and left Delhi at around 1 o clock. The initial plan was to reach Manali by night. But considering that we left Delhi at 1 and Manali was around 530 Kms away, it was a long way off. So instead of staying somewhere on the road to Manali, we decided to take a detour and stay at Shimla. We had a wonderful lunch at a roadside dhaba.
The only thing I remember on this day of travel was that we stopped in the evening to buy some fruits
and later that night bui, mayur and akash bought beer. Until then everybody was asleep since no one had a sound sleep previous night.At around 9:30 we realized we were still around 50km short of shimla and thought we will halt somewhere nearby. So the next town we encountered was Solan and on the outskirts we found a hotel and decided to stay there.
It was a strange hotel. The reception was at top floor and two floors down we had our rooms and the rooms were quite awful but we had no option but to stay there. We had food at the same place.
Since on the very first day the whole plan got changed(Shimla instead of Manali), now we had to decide how to tweak the plan. The discussion went nowhere and the only thing we decided was we will get up at 5 in the morning so that we can reach manali next day early.
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