Day 18, we had finally reached the last day of the trip. We started from Vishakhapatnam at about 5:25 a.m. and the road was very good. The NH 5 is in very good shape and you can really enjoyed driving on NH 5. We took breakfast (Idli and Dosa) near Rajhamundhary and lunch (South Indian thali) at Guntur.
On the way, we started reliving the trip. We relived the great times we had on the trip. We remembered the various things written at the back of the lorries we saw during the long trip.We thanked all the persons who had helped us during the trip, without their support the things would not have been as smooth as they were. And it was during one of these conversations that the idea of making a trip blog really came up.
We were nearing 10000 kms. by the time we were entering Tamilnadu. We thought that it is possible that the trip meter may be only up to 9999.9 and then it may show 0 instead of 10000.0. So, we stopped the vehicle when we reached 9999.9. We were near Gummidipoondi after entering Tamilnadu. We took photograph of the odometer to make this figure memorable. It is not easy to reach 9999 in trip meter. Immediately after we started, the meter moved to ‘0’. So, it was very good that we took the photograph at 9999.9 kms.
We were near Chennai at about 7 p.m. We took tea. We had entered Chennai from the Northern most point i.e. Red Hills and we stay in Sholinganallur, which is the Southern most point of Chennai. So, we had to travel in the city for about 50 kms. Further, it was peak evening time. We took almost two and half hours to reach home. We stopped at Anna Nagar and got some dinner packed. We completed the tour by about 9:45 p.m.
The trip was a very enjoyable, satisfying trip which included all the thrills of driving on the roads of India. At the end of the trip, we had satisfaction that we have reached the destination. At the same time we felt that the trip ended so fast, it could have continued for some more days - which is an inspiration in itself for our road trips ahead.
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