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Goodbye 2017

It is that time of the year, when you invariably look back at the good and bad times of the year gone by.  This post talks about, just that. - I have read a lot of books this year. Some of them have definitely left a lasting impression on me. To name a few - 'The god of small things', 'when breath becomes air' and '10% happier'. Though I could not complete the 'Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - a trilogy in four parts', I have thoroughly enjoyed this book. The writing style is so unique, simple and just plain funny. - We drove our car to places this year. Diveagar , Temgarh and Vadgaon. - We started morning jogs, in January. It went on pretty regularly for around 45 days. After that we only continued our afternoon and evening walks. We had targeted a distance of 1000 kms for the year, but we just reached the half mark. - We went for another night trek, this time to Rajgad. It was a tougher trek and we have improved our stamina a lot, since the last...

Dive-Agarkar - Second edition

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The first edition, the one that created this group, was as memorable as this one, relive it here . It took us 3 years to get to the second one, but it was worth the wait. On a side note, we also expanded the group with two tiny-tots! We had planned to meet at our place, on a 'holi'day. Good food and conversations led to the plan and the dates were finalised! Of course our star planner DJ detailed, booked and executed the plan. We were going to Diveagar! This time Shri dropped out and Dhaval-Renu decided to become NRIs. But we welcomed two new members Vishwas and Suchitra (who we kept meeting at dinner/lunch plans but they could not make it to the last trip). So we were 8 adults and 1 tiny-tot (Shanaya) who made the trip to Diveagar on the 25th of March, to enjoy the cool summer breeze and the salty ocean. Since the trip dates were so close to Supriya's birthday, we decided to celebrate it with a cake. Plans and re-plans later, we decided to buy a full cream cake, ...