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Still on the right side of 30s, the car bug bit me when I had just about stopped wetting my bed. This does not imply that it took me a long time to learn to control my bladder. That failed attempt at humour aside, I bought my first car at the age of 24 - a gorgeous Premier Padmini 1100. I was in love with this car. This was my first touring car. With no A/C or power steering, it still amazes me that the 14 year old beauty (it was a 1991 model) behaved itself better than a few of the modern cars I have driven. Naturally, I was heart-broken when the car had to be sold. I was in the jungles of Africa and the car simply sat in the house rusting itself
Africa was good to me in terms of cars. In the three years I spent there, I drove a handful of cars - Mitsubishi Lancer, Honda City, Kia Sephia, Hyundai Accent / Verna, Hyundai Sonata to name a few. I first broke the 100mph (162 kmph) speed barrier in the Hyundai Sonata on Africa's longest bridge - the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. A good word about the Lancer. I inherited the Lancer at 1,20,000 km on the odo. Despite her age, she drove like a dream.
I got married, and moved back to India a couple of years ago. With no immediate job offers in hand, my wife and I decided to make the most of the time. We bought the Bolero SLX in August 2009 and made a run to Ladakh. Those 17 days were the most adventurous 17 days of our lives. The car was brilliant. No mountain was too high. No stream was too deep. She laughed in the face of cold starts. She munched up 6735km and did not even burp.
While currently employed as a salesman who sells software (or a Business Development Manager as the industry likes to call it), my wife and I take time out at least one weekend a month to hit the roads. Jog Falls, Suryalanka, Srisailam, Nagarjuna Sagar, Patna, a failed attempt at Pondicherry - all these have been done in the course of the last one year in my trusted steed.
Other than travel and cars, I have a new-found love of photography. Wherever I go, my camera follows. I used to be an avid reader, not so much anymore.