Ditched by Friends Hence the Beginning of BFF

Ditched by Friends Hence the Beginning of BFF

The perfect duo connected by a love for travel!

Settled in Delhi for years now we BFF's have spent the most amazing years of my life in Dehradun, mostly referred as Doon. No matter how far we go but when it comes to solace, our choice of place is always back home. The valley has some kind of magic in it which turns out to be a energy booster every single time we visit this beautiful land.  It's the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of Delhi.

We have known Doon like the back of our hand. There is a strange thing about this place, you can never get lost. Each and every street looks so familiar where people don't treat you like stranger. We are emotionally attached to this place not because its our home but because more than we love this place, it loves us back. It has given us a box full of memories and lifetime experience which will only make us wiser and stronger.

This time our visit was little different from other times. So we BFF's planned for rafting with our gang but  because of back-outs at the last moment followed by a lot of drama, we ended up landing in Doon. It was a long weekend and obviously we were not in our best of moods.

We reached there at mid-night and soon after started making plans for our next morning. After all the brainstorming, we decided to explore a new cafe in town- FIRST GEAR CAFE on Rajpur- Mussoorie Road. A two wheeler ride on this road  never fails to lift or mood. our trip to Dehradun is incomplete without visiting this road.

As we woke up in the morning, we had two big concerns, rain and a two wheeler. We somehow managed to get a scooty which we had to collect from a friend and now the only concern was rain. It was raining heavily outside which somehow tried to ruin our plan but not our spirits. The decision really paid us well and by the time we got ready, the sun was shining in a way giving us a Thumbs Up.

We left from home to collect the scooty from our friend who was waiting for us at a near-by place. Surprisingly covering a 20 minutes distance turned out to be a roller coaster ride for us. The Doon which we had seen earlier was messed up, our peaceful city was also participating in the race of so called development. Construction everywhere, no public transport available for that distance, people literally crawling in mud to reach their destination. This walk literally made us felt like we are getting rescued from a place which just witnessed a natural disaster. We have never witnessed this kind of scenario before. After much of struggle we finally reached the spot and collected the scooty.

Soon we were on our way to Rajpur - Mussoorie road. As we reached closer to that road, it suddenly lifted our mood. All the stress was out and we could feel the calmness and greenery all around. We reached the First Gear Cafe and as the name suggest you can only reach there on first gear :p. We sat there for hours just to feel the beauty of our city and to that view, everything else just looked small. Not only this view was new to us but to our boldness, after the cafe we sat beside the road with beer in one hand  a list of topics to chit-chat on other.

So our very own Doon yet again gave us a new hideout place and yes not to forget sitting at First Gear Cafe felt like sitting at top of the world with the earth shaking below. The same time we witnessed an earthquake!!