The Money Shot

 

- Aathish Mishra

THIS IS GETTING TOUGHER BY THE MONTH. I thought that with the monsoons receding, our Chasing the Sun escapades would become simpler and wouldn’t involve us invoking the gods to clear the skies every half hour. But no, many gods were invoked, the skies remained cloudy and we were left driving around haplessly waiting for them to part. You see, the monsoons advance in the north-western direction for the most part and then head to north India. And just when you think they’re done, the winds double back and head in the south-east direction — the retreating monsoons. They are no kinder than the first onslaught of rain and were certainly making me consider retreating back to the city and giving up on this Chasing the Sun adventure all together. Heck, this was the second time in one week that I’d driven up to Kaas and I had no luck.

Thankfully, we were in the Hyundai Creta, an SUV that I don’t mind spending time in. You see, back when we had the Creta in our long term fleet, the Ed kept it all to himself because he liked it so much. So I never had the chance to drive the Creta long enough to form any sort of concrete opinion about it, apart from the second-hand opinions I picked up from the Ed’s rave reviews in the fleet section of the magazine. Not any more, because I had this Creta all to myself and with the weather remaining uncooperative, it looked like it might have well just been my new long termer. Good stuff.