Flight of the Desert Hawk

Finding some free time and fuel in the bike's tank has its consequences, i.e. RIDING and so it happened today. I had been planning for this trip for quite some time now but time itself was the problem but I got the opportunity today.

The destination was no specific, I only wanted to be in the middle of the desert which is toward South of my city.

I shall post some pics with commentary..This time pics were taken from the digital camera a gift from my uncle. Images have been resized for quick loading.

As the ride began, two things bothered me quite much.
1. I was hearing some cracking kind of sound that really freaked me.
2. Every biker coming from front had his face fully covered (because mostly we don't use helmets) but I was wearing my helmet.

I did some more distance and finally found out that the cracking sound was in fact bugs hitting the helmet and for the same reason other bikers had their faces covered

Time is ripe for the harvesting of gram crop so the desert is covered with a green blanket in this season.

I did a total of 82km on this ride, both ways. This is the second longest ride for me on this bike.
Some pics..

Found a diverging road and stopped for a pic there, it was just me myself and I on this road...Complete wilderness..

The whole place gives an entirely different look in the summer season, but wow here..


Love this shot..


A pic of the Thal Motorway, very nice for speed riding. Needless to say I didn't go fast :-)


It was beginning to get dark as I started on my way back, however I stopped for a few pics..

As it got darker there were more bugs hitting the helmet. On my way up I had spotted this area near the main road, I wanted to be back here while there was still daylight so I could take some good pics but unfortunately I got a bit late. Nevertheless, I took some pics...

Next up it got even darker and my helmet's visor had got little bugs all over it so that made the visibility even poorer. When I got back home I came to know that the bugs were actually mosquitoes, I had killed several today.


A look of the helmet after the ride..


The ride done, the bike now needs a good cleaning... :-)

Aliens Do Exist

YOU’D believe in their existence too, especially after hearing Rehman Malik’s pointless statements that he’s been giving to the media trying to brush aside the shame that the current situation has caused the government. To be specific, Rehman Malik has said repeatedly, in very innocent way at times, that no one is being blocked from going to Islamabad, that the government has not blocked any road whatsoever, that no political leader is being restricted to participate in the Long March, that rather the government is doing every effort to ensure security to the participants of the Long March. Must be true what he says, which strengthens my belief in the existence of aliens in our country. I mean if the government is ensuring a free flow of the Long March then it must be aliens who have put containers on the roads to block them and the selfsame aliens have caused arrest of political activists and have restricted the political leaders and the lawyers’ leadership to reach Islamabad. So now, do we have a new enemy in the form of aliens?

They say that what happens once may not happen twice but what happens twice will surely happen again. We, as a nation, have been caught up in this vicious cycle where the unwanted episodes are repeated time and again. The way the nation got rid of the ex is still fresh in everyone’s mind, that was when some in the present government were on the road too. All the faces on the road today (except the few in the ruling party) are the same as there were in the previous Long March and yet there is a difference, because this time the nation is going to register the unprecedented turnout in its history not only to show that they want restoration of pre November 03, ’07 judiciary but also to bring it home to Rehman Malik who is a victim to the fallacy that the worthy President is very popular among the lot. Things should have a limit. If the historic turnout of people could not open Rehman Malik’s eyes to reality, certain resignations should have. But everyone is a famous one unless sacked.