Idle musings

KODAGU TRIP     My parents, my wife, uncle, aunt and I visited Madikeri from 8-Nov-07 to 10-Nov-07. What follows are impressions from the trip.     To begin with, 8-Nov-07 was Deepawali, but it was difficult to recognize that. When we got up at 5:30 a.m., the early morning was rather surprisingly silent. For a Deepawali morning, that was unusual : I expected young children to begin bursting crackers at the earliest possible time ! The price of crackers must have made the city more quieter than usual this time around. The Toyota Qualis came at 6:30 as promised. Even at 6:50 when we left, the morning was a cool and silent morning, just like other mornings.     We (my parents, uncle, wife and I) sped towards Mysore, zipping on the state highway 17. The traffic was minimal - or so we thought until we reached Kamat Lokaruchi for breakfast !! The rush there was unbelievable : it seemed like that all the missing traffic was at Lokaruchi :-)) We waited for 10 minutes to get a table and then a