Standing in mist and green at a Coorg viewpoint.

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Coorg

Seven of us. Rain, wine, a river. Three days that still feel short.

17–20 August 2022 · 7 of us

Seven of us left Marathahalli on 17 August 2022.

Sunil, Sridhar, Sonali, Bharat, Sukumar bhai, Anil, and me.

Sonali was new to Bangalore then. I knew her from before, so I introduced her to everybody.

Autos to Satellite Town. Then the bus.

I booked the tickets. Sridhar and Sunil still landed on another bus. Five of us in the first one. Those two in the next. We couldn't talk on the way. That's how it went.

Standing at a station on the way to Coorg.

We got down in Coorg. A house we had booked ourselves. Three rooms. Light rain.

We took rest. Local wine.

Then Raja's Seat. Mist sitting on everything.

Friends at a misty railing in Coorg.
At the railing, fog behind the trees.
On a balcony in town.

We stayed a couple of days. Walked around. There is a museum in Coorg. We went.

The group in Coorg, after rain.

Night: more wine. Some dancing. That year it was mostly wine.

A night in Coorg.

There was a bike standing outside. Not ours. I sat on it anyway. A few photographs. That was it.

Sitting on a motorcycle in Coorg.
On the same motorcycle.
The motorcycle beside a white van.

Next day, kayak. A wide river, moving water. In the middle we jumped in, then climbed back on. Cold. Good.

The food in Coorg was something else.

A few temples. Other small places around. I wish we had more days. We didn't.

I think we came back by train. I don't remember the return as clearly as the going.

Three days. Very nice.

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