TravelStories: Tirupati, Tribeni etc.

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.