Goals, Desires etc

We live direction less life currently. There is no direction to it.
Often, we say this is my goal in life. It will either be an end point or career related etc.
But we never think beyond it. What is beyond it?
Beyond it is a harsh reality called "death".
If we build our goals as an end point, we often invite bad times.
Take for example a CEO of a small company, he will desire to make his company big. For the same he works, overworks
and in the end screw his own life. He does not realize that the life is too short for him to grow his company. He forgets his identify, he becomes the company. That is where the error lies. Our choices are wrong, Our goals are wrong.

Amboli trip - Fog, Mist, waterfalls, snakes, frogs and greens

Amboli -(15th Aug 2008 - 17th Aug 2008)
We were 16 of us and 4 kids in all ready for the trip. All bookings were done far in advance considering the holiday

season.
Travel - Konkanya express (0111/0112) both ways - http://www.irctc.co.in
Stay - Whilsting Woods, Amboli - http://www.amboliww.com.

Day 1 -
We started off for 3 places -
Nagartas waterfall - This is huge waterfall(one can only see the waterfall) where water rushes down from around 50 feet into a deep valley and then becomes a narrow stream. Its a breath taking view of the water gushing down from such height in a narrow passage.

Kavelsad Point - Enter a complete fog area. You cannot see anything in the valley, but look closer. You will see the water drops coming upwards and they look light small white lights coming up due to wind blowing in opposite direction to the water flow. One of the best sites I have ever seen.

HiranyaKashi river - This is the starting point of hiranyakeshi river. It starts from under the cave and water from all sides flows into the river. There is a old temple of shiva for your prayers. On the way back from the point, we saw 2 small waterfall. As usual, I could not stop myself and went right in it. Few of us took the majja of the waterfall before heading back to the car.

Day 2 -
We started off for rest of the 3 points -
Amboli waterfall - Fortunately, the crowd was less on this day due to rakshabandhan. So we spend almost couple of hours in the fall. Rather under the fall. The force of the water was too much at some places. The water was also very cold, but it was too much fun. We came out and had vada pav etc which caused too much gas in the night that we had to use perfumes as air fresheners ;)
Mahadevghad - Lush green out fields and differently shaped mountains awaited us. The photography session was unending right from on the trees to stones.
Shirgaonkar point - This should actually be called leech point because we had our blood sucked by leeches. And worst part was there was nothing to see on the point.

The evening was fun-filled with playing cards, dumb charade followed by story telling by everyone. All of us were met by nice surprises about others and it got pretty interesting. Ended the day(pretty much start of the next day) at 1:45am and decided that we all will get up late.

Day 3 - Late start 10:-11:0am for breakfast. By the time we ended breakfast, it was almost noon. We had to checkout 4 rooms because resort owner had bookings. Now it was time for relaxed walk and a big photo session. We covered almost all poses from standing to sitting to sleeping. The photos came out too good.
It was time to go back, nobody wanted to go back but we had to.
It was interesting to see resort owners life with his house in the backyard of the resort and a nice healthy dog.
Decided to check out early and have late lunch (that was really late 5:00pm) at sawantwadi. We reached sawantwadi in time and had to wait nearly 30min for the train to come.

Somethings to watch out -
a) If you are taking konkan kanya, board from the first station CST.
b) Order your food 1.5 hours before you intend to eat it. We took more then 2 hours at a time for all meals. Best is to order in advance and get it to the resort.
c) Buy and carry leech guard so that you can visit the jungle.
d) The main waterfall has many drunkards on holidays, so schedule your trip to waterfall on a odd day.

Lush green out fields, wet roads and bike ride it's a unique experience.

Lush green, Wet outfields and bike ride is a unique experience.
This was my 2nd ride on the bike. Location unknown but had read on the internet
that it was awesome.
After all the dropouts, 5 of us were ready to roll.
Unlike the first ride, this time rain was going to hit us hard.
The route was virar-ambada-wada-suryamal-khodala
The stretch upto Ambada was pain, the road to virar was broken with pot holes all
the way.
The stretch from wada to suryamal is something unseen (best possible wet roads with lot of fog on the way), unheard (you can only hear the flow of water).
The ride itself was eventful. We were 5 of us - Amit, Jigar, myself (netmagic),
Amog, Niket (bombaybikers).
On road from virar to vrajeshwari, Amog skid on his bike. It hurt him a bit, bike was fine.
On stretch from ambada to wada - Jigar fell down. His bike in one pot hole, himself
in another. But as he says, he is experienced by now to fall from the bike ;).
Guess who was next? None other then myself.
There was water flow on the road which had lot of "Leel". 3 of them went through with thier bikes shaking but not falling down. I did not see it. I went through and there I went skidding. Fortunately bike slipped away from me and nothing happened to me. Bike's leg guard was twisted. Footpeg bent. Amit was quick to pull the bike
up. So very eventful trip ;)
The waterfalls were just amazing and so many of them on the way. We bathed in 2 of them.
The photo sessions were unending as there was so much to capture. The roads were empty whereby we parked our bikes on the road to click photos (and from all angles too).
With some hot tea in the cold weather (yeah all of us were shaking), we were ready to return.
There was only 1 sad thing in the end. The road from virar to borivali was 40km of pot holes with some roads in between. It was literally "pain in the butt".
The photos captured have come awesome and will upload it to picasa soon and post the link here.