With New Year just
around the corner, I am sure most of you, who love to travel, have already
started ticking those dates – long weekends, adding or clubbing those Mondays
and Fridays for trips and tours. You cannot plan the long vacation just yet –
it is too early for that, as office or business can be quite unpredictable
sometimes.
Somehow, it is one
thing to travel during weekends with friends - a quick break from Corporate
life and quite another to travel home for family gatherings. Most of us have
done both, particularly if you are away from home for studies or job.
There is yet
another choice actually - the third
option which is absolute bliss - to travel without any agenda, without the
thought of returning to work or calculating annual leaves used, without the
hurry to cover important tourist spots as soon as possible. You seriously
cannot experience that kind of travelling unless you are on a sabbatical.
My work place has been away from home town. For twelve long years it was an exhaustive drilling exercise to chalk strategic travel plans every year - being home during festivals and also covering parts of India.
Though I am not running a thriving enterprise just yet after I bid adieu to Corporate life two years back, however I work from some of the most incredible spots - As I travel, I am building something I want to do rest of my life - creating awareness on Dementia while also - I am delivering assignments to a client in Canada or in United States who needs support for his startup or coaching on what next in his new found venture.
I obviously set up my shop wherever my wanderlust takes me between two major cities in India. Equipped with a laptop and internet connection, my mobile cubicle is either on a bean bag in the living room, terrace, balcony or in a train.
Here are glimpses
of places I visited with hardly any plan – just spontaneous, during weekdays -
with my mother (the pilgrims), or a friend (the drives) or neighbors (the
locales) – anything goes.
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Mayapur |
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Coonoor |
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The Art of Living Meditation Space |
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To Tirupati |
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Tribeni |
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Puducherry |
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Belur |
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Arambagh |
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Anekal, Hilltop Resort
Ramosara Foundation Proposed Location for Old Age Home |
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Ooty
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More pictures from a few pilgrims Jairambaati, Kamarpukur, Nabadwip, Adyapith, Dakhineshwar, Jog Udyan will be added when I can source them.
Travel when you want, not when you can