Let's go ahead - Chapter 02

As we were back on our wheels and started again..... I enjoying the view and listening to good music with one ear plug in my ear and the other sams, did not see what was coming next.
Just had covered some 5 to 6 kms and suddenly sam pressed the brakes hard and looked behind and i looked at him and just said "what??"
and he said "accident !!"
I turned to look behind and saw two of our friends lying on the road.....
we rushed to pick them up, and thankfully they were not that injured except a few bruises.
We picked them, and switched places.
I sat behind the other guy friend of ours and the girl behind him held sam tight this time.
We moved a km ahead and stopped at a dhaba to check the injuries well and investigate the bike that suddenly started making weird sounds.
Seeing no mechanic nearby, just a puncture repair hut, sam and me made these two heroes sit in shade and calm down themselves, and for the first time i helped someone in opening a bike and trying to figure out what had gone wrong and then fix it even.
With screwdrivers and other mechanical tools around we moved apart the petrol tank of the pulsar.
Dug deep inside and opened a few more parts and then sam held a black box thing and showed me it's broken.
I asked what is it, he said "one of the spark plugs. We have two such, even if one is there the bike would go on but would not pick up well".
And then we removed it and drove to the next nearby town where we would find that black masterpiece that would make our trip easy.
Under the scorching sun from one shop to another, after seeing through almost a number of them we found one where we got this masterpiece!
Now the question was "who would fix it" ??
Again mechanic search began!!
And as was predicted right by us ... ultimately we had to again open up the bike and fix it ourselves.
Finally after 2 hours of hard-work and patience we got back on track...
The best part being, the enthusiasm had instead of going low ... gone higher.... our smiles were at another level of accomplishment.
And the zeal to get to our destination had gone up more.

We learnt one thing after this experience, that.... if you are determined to reach where you want to no-one can ever stop you !!
I am glad I had chosen to go on this trip with such marvellous bunch of people.

to be cont...