Out to Samode Before the Heat
Sunday, out of the house before six. August is nearly finished and these are the last mornings of the year that are worth getting up for, so I did not want to spend this one at home with tea and the phone.Took the Sikar road out through Chomu. Trucks were still parked along the shoulder with their drivers asleep underneath them, and once past the last set of lights the road opened up completely. The Aravallis after two months of rain do not look like the Aravallis at all. Everything is green, the kind of green that holds for about six weeks and then goes back to brown until next June. Twice there was water still running across the road where the nallahs cross it. Both times slow, both times fine.The Yezdi is a single and it never lets you forget that, but at fifty five or sixty on an empty...
