West to East Coast Drive

2-May - Mumbai to Hyderabad

I started my drive from Mumbai at about 3.15am. I intended to cross Lonavla by sunrise but i managed to reach the outskirts of Pune in by early morning. The roads were a breeze as expected. 80-100 km of bad roads after Solapur the rest is very good roads. Reached Hyderabad at 1.30 pm.

As per Google maps it should have taken 13 hrs. I reached faster as I left at very good time when the traffic at it's lowest. I usually do not take any food breaks as I carry food in the car.

3-May - Hyderbad to Raipur, Chhattisgarh

This leg of the journey is also the Detour. After reaching I called up the hotel I had booked in Visakhapatnam for my next hault. They informed me that the conditon is really severe due to Cyclone Fani and advised me not to come to Vizag. I called MMT and cancelled the hotel booking for a full refund and rerouted my journey. I decided to stay away from the coastal regions and head to Raipur instead. Road conditions were fabulous. All expressways throughout.

4-May - Raipur to Kolkata

I once again started the day at about 3.00am from Raipur and started to make my way to Bhubneshwar. I was planning stay a night in Bhubneshwar. As I started getting closer to Bhubneshwar I started seeing the aftermath of the cyclone. I had no network, (Thanks to offline maps I survived). There was citywide black out. Drinking water was an issue as well. I had a few friends and family here but couldn't reach anyone. I reached Bhubneshwar by 11.00am, Running low on fuel. I quickily decided to skip my stay here and head directly to Kolkata as it was only 11.30 am. By my estimate I had about 10L of fuel, so decided to cross the cyclone affected area in this fuel as the fuel stations were very crowded in the city. I refueled on the way and carried on and stretched myself to the finish line. Thankfully I did have and issues and the road conditions exceeded my expectaions so I covered a total of 1000km from Raipur in 15hrs and 40mins.