We are the best candidates for The Great Driving Challenge! - Our Video

Please see our video for The Great Driving Challenge! We are the best! :-)

Puncture ke Car-namey

A funny sketch from Aditi to help you get a flavour of what our puncture is like! Enjoy!

What's your route plan? Is there something special happening guys?

12 hours and 15 minutes left, before we submit our final application to the great driving challenge.

"So, whats your route plan? Is Mitsubishi Constellation happening guys? We haven't seen it as yet... " - we have heard many such queries over the last couple of days.

Wait a little while longer. Our route plan, credentials and something-very-very special will be uploaded on this blog (and in the application too) in the next 12 hours.

Please continue voting for us, and thanks so very much for your support. Today is the last day - please give us your support!

http://www.greatdrivingchallenge.com/application/1246425248799124

A walk down our driving experiences! :-)

Aditi and I have been on several drives. We are vastly experienced at driving trips - a reflection of our true passion. Firstly, let me start off with listing our key achievements:

1. Driven in 4 continents: Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa
2. Driven in 8 coutries: India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland
3. Been on several long road trips. Going by distance, the two longest ones are the 3,630 km trip through Chennai - Bangalore - Goa - Mumbai - Pune - Hyderabad - Chennai and the 3,200 kms trip touching Chennai-Hyderabad-Mumbai-Vijaywada-Chennai
4. Achieved "1000 kms of driving in a day" twice. Once in South Africa and once in Malaysia.
5. Maximum distance in a day in India is ~900 kms from Vishakapatnam to Chennai... and many more in 800-900kms range in a day

Having highlighted key achievements, we would like to now highlight, some of our most memorable drives:

1. Auckland to Rotorua, New Zealand
2. Capetown to Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa
3. Stutgart (Germany) to Interlaken (Switzerland) and back, through Alps
4. Singapore to Cherating Malaysia - 2 trips
5. Several trips from Chennai to Ooty, Kodaikalan, Kerala (each ~1,500 kms or more)
6. Chennai to Dandeli Water Rafting, via Bangalore (trip of ~2,000 kms)
7. Separate trips from Singapore to Pangkor Island, Tioman Islands, Penang (in Malaysia) with each trip being ~1500 kms long8)
8. Atleast 15 trips from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur
9. Capetown to Knysna, South Africa (Garden Route)
10. Perth to Margaret River, Australia.
11. .. and numerous others....

Please check this blog for more details on a few of these. I have another blog for the longest trip I have been to: http://wimwi-road-trip.blogspot.com/

Introducing to you "Puncture"

The Great Driving Challenge is an amazing concept. It has been designed in such a way to get everyone excited. While I am kicked about driving and blogging, Aditi has let her creative side take-over.

For our trip, Aditi has designed a new cartoon character - "Puncture"! Puncture is purely Aditi's brain child. As she puts it, "Puncture is a little dumb... recent medical reports suggests that Puncture is suffering from Carotitis - a mental disorder, leaving the patient with the ability to only understand things that are in anyway related to cars.. for rest of worldly matters, our Puncture is totally dumb!"

Ladies and Gentlemen, Unveiling to you, "Puncture" (back ground music goes tain tain, tain tain toden tain, tain tain toden tain tain)

1) This is our "Dumb Puncture" - the natural pose!

2) If you discuss anything other than cars, this is his usual reaction:

3) All you need to do is to mention the word "car" and this is the reaction you get to see!

Mitsubishi Constellation - what's that?

We are all geared up for The Great Driving Challenge. By 17th, we all need to submit our final route plans, our driving history/ credentials and to define why are we the best candidates?

Our route plan is unique - we are creating the Mitsubishi Constellation - what's this? Well, it will all be unveiled shortly - this blog would have all the information by 17th evening. Till then, its all under wraps!

Please keep voting for us at The Great Driving Challenge. We need you support:

http://www.greatdrivingchallenge.com/application/1246425248799124/

Great Driving Challenge!

Aditi and me are participating in the great driving challenge contest. Please vote for us (link on this blog)!

Starting from today, we will be regularly updating you with our plans for the great driving challenge. You can read our profile and our travel plan at this link:

http://www.greatdrivingchallenge.com/application/1246425248799124

We will be updating our profile till 17th July. Please do keep checking - would be fantastic if you could help us get more votes. Please forward to your friends.

Do keep checking this blog... there will be quite a few posts in the coming days!