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Stories of national highway - The speedy walker

Travelling is a good and natural part of our human life we commute to places and call it adventure. we travel to places on a package with guide, with friends, sometimes family. People are excited about it, a getaway to far away place sounds exciting. From my experience it is leaving a home behind to feel the survival spirit with minimal resources. Money makes it easy, it depends on the person how they view the concept some travel out of necessity some to prove something to themselves and some to impress.


It’s hard to tell what people's final goals are but we meet them on their way. It is kind of funny because I read somewhere, there are many way to reach a place but, why all the people travel on the same road and cause traffic jam? I see lot of characters on road. My travel purpose is out of necessity sometime for no reason at all mostly i just want to be in a place where I don't have to think other than my food and the place I stay.




On may way to a place that I frequently visit there are remote villages google map fails to name them, the people of those villages are very cautious. The incident took place on the state highway where google map took me on a route that was not a standard way to the place I wanted to go, I normally don't look at my device I instead go on the way the lady in the google map tells me to, she is very confused person. I instructed the map on the way I would want to go but, mid journey the map lady optimised the route which took me on a road where I couldn't find a house or an electric pole. The road was very well made, no potholes in middle of westernghats. I stoped to recheck if I had not wandered off my route far, there was an old man walking towards me, I thought I will check my map if  I am lost I will ask the old man route back to join the highway. The person noticed me and crossed the empty road to other side, started to walk faster it was bit surprising. People in city are known to show such behaviour, I didn't get chance to talk to him as he walked away faster than he approached me. I saw him turned to look at me and he continued his pace, at that moment I just laughed at the situation and continued on the route. That moment made me wonder what made him change his walking pace. Normally I should be the one worried as I am a traveler who don’t know the place or it’s people.

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Location: Udupi, Karnataka, India

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