12’ and some odd minutes had past and Mr. Sunshine was at his best. Lazing around with a cup of cold coffee in my hands, I murmured to myself....is this my idea of Saturday ...the day of the week that is anticipated and waited for throughout the whole mundane scheduled white collar-blue collar-without collar week....I picked up man’s greatest invention and for people like us , our soul mate in all times... “The telephone” and as a default reaction, dialled the number of the one and only person in the whole wide world, who cannot, I know, say no to me(though most of the times...it’s not by choice)!!!My married better half...who as I would have guessed was super busy doing some super important do not disturb kind of stuff at his recent or rather is only address of habitat...his office and naturally did not enjoy the call...at all.
“Guess what ...we should go somewhere...lets drive around...I mean let’s do something interesting....what do you say?”...A long pause...and from the sound of it, I, could most definitely make out that, my married better half was not in the slightest mood to enter into any further dialogue...thus said...”done deal”...
Some great friends to set the mood and we hit off for an escapade nearby. Some 80-90 odd kms from our home in Gurgaon, a drive through the Highway and we reach Murthal...well nothing is breathtakingly great about the place but the drive welcomes you with abundant farmhouses renting out for “pocket conditioned” functions for the common as well as celebrated man! Once we get past those marriage halls we come across a host of “dhaba(s)”....though they are all “vaishno dhabas”...meaning the vegetarian counterpart, one cannot just stop licking one’s fingers ...soul satisfying food at a reasonable price with unparalleled though typical dhaba-feel.
Thus for all of us for whom the great sense of adventure sometimes gets limited to just few kms drive...good food....great company and a not a super hectic weekend...This most definitely seems an option worth experiencing.
Welcome to the “Good times Club”...
