Rant 77: A tripper's eye view

Ahh! At last, I enter the oh so spectacular world of Panoramas!
This lovely specimen was picked up when your's truly was cutting through the Western Ghats on a eight-year old Bajaj Pulsar 150, going from Anjuna beach in Goa to Belgaum in north Karnataka. And as always, the ghats are ever ready with their amazing views. Now although I have several samples of photos that I clicked with the intention of stitching them into a panorama, I never actually did the stitching part - probably because I was too lazy to follow the hundreds of instructions on how to do it manually. However, today I stumbled upon a very nifty way to stitch. Basically photoshop has an in-built feature. File>Automate>Photomerge. Then simply select the photos - in order mind you - and click OK. Voila! just a minute later, I have my panorama!

ps: It may seem like I'm standing on a U-bend in the road, but it's actually just one straight road! how cool is that?

Rant 15: The third Hike...GOAAA on a Bike!

...well scooter...but you get the point!
after two weeks of deliberations as to which hike to include on my soon-to-be-finished magazine, I finally decided to combine two aspects of the Road Trip concept, a Bike and a Beach, which can be summed up in just one word actually...

GOAAAAA!

Adi was game for coming along as well, which was all the more awesome. The whole plan was basically chalked out in a matter of hours. The good friday holiday seemed like a very good excuse, and we headed out on Thursday night for a day's visit to goa.

waiting for the train...alongwith the MIT Football team

a slightly uncomfortable journey...sitting alongside a close friend and captain of the team going along


Good Morning Goa! Welcome to BENJOE's Restaurant

where do you think MV Trasher's headed?

From one bridge...........................................................to another

Finally Anjuna... some people even get braids


seen at an Anjuna beach pub
(dont worry...that's just their safety net for the cops! light away as you please here)


three hours of riding under a hot sun...as he himself put it, it only made bud wiser


One last step...I wonder if that Fish-Rock will save me!


the other side of Anjuna


Someone's checking me out on Vagator Beach...not that I'm celebrating or anything


Meet this guy...Para-Surfer and his incredibly fluorescent Green Kite


omg wat a way to surf!



Picture

Perfect


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(who's pun is it anyway?)