This my travel blog during lock down situation due to COVID19. I drove my car and did the journey with my family (4 persons, including 2 kids). Here is my travel details and video blog on youtube.
Day 1
I
started on Saturday morning at 6:30am from Bangalore and drive about 700km to reach Vijayawada. It
took nearly 12.5 hours including small break. Road conditions was overall good. We
stayed at Hotel Center Side booked from MMT. It's really nice hotel, good sanitize
facility is there. We brought lunch and snacks from home and did dinner at
hotel. It was really good food. We took roti from hotel at night for next day
breakfast, which we eat with Jam. At AP border they make entry for entrance
and it took an hour. There was no social distance for this queue.
Day 2
I started from Vijayawada at 6am towards Bhubaneswar. Its about 800kms. We
heard road conditions is excellent but it's not. The NH16 is now modifying and
maximum places are diverted by side lane. This road condition is not good,
drove about 40-50kms speed. I found traffic as well and a place was water
logging. This journey took about 18 hours and reached at Hotel Pushpak around
12:40am (midnight). This Hotel was not as good as earlier day but it's okay.
Again it's sanitized hotel booked from MMT. This day we faced issue with dinner
as it was too late. We purchased from a road side dhaba but it was not good
quality. Orissa border they provided a pass and it was check at 4 places before
reaching at hotel.
Day 3
Started from hotel at 9am after breakfast and took luchi/puri-sabji parcel from hotel for lunch. It was about 500km journey for me. Road condition is good. On road my Fasttag stop working due to KYC due and can't recharge. On road I called to customer care and asked for help. It took about 30-45mins and got solution to use it. I did not stopped anywhere for food and come direct to home. Road conditions is really pathetic from Dumdum Airport to Habra about 40km. Also I noticed people are not following COVID safety like mask , social distance. Kolkata-Mumbai road was traffic after Kolaghat. Also lots of bicycle on road. After all I reached at home around 10pm. I applied for WB epass but no one checked it.
Note: This is 14th day and ending our home quarantine. We are happy to inform we have not infected by corona during our journey. So I can say hotel stay and journey is safe from Corona. :)
