re-CYCLE

When I was thinking of buying a cycle cuz I like cycling and had lost my previous bike, I noticed Amits cycle which was lying in our back yard with a torn - water soaked - seat, flat distorted tyre, rusted chain, peeling paint and almost no gears ....
I started with filling up the tyre and putting back the chain.... dusted off the dirt and wow... the cycle still had some life in it... it had Shimano gears with a broken string.... so took it to my lab , get the rear gear fixed, painted it and stuck a fire ball sticker on it..... god knows how old....but sturdy as a new one with the Shimano gears living upto its reputation and the break pads though brittle, still werent so bad....

I had been seeing this rather badly broken, trashed NEW bike on the way home...so I took off the handle, the nice cuissioned seat from it and the break pads and put them on my bike... and POOF!!!... My very own no cost re-CYCLED Cycle...

There are always cycles that Money can buy...
But the feeling of giving a cycle a new life ..Priceless !! ;-)

Wild Wild NC Trip

click on the frog and it will turn into a Princess
Left Durham, NC at 12:30 PM;Brijesh, Ninad and Me...Reached Raven Rock State Park at 3:30

Started along the Campbell Creek Loop trail : Approx 5 mile moderate Trail.We saw a Frog, Brijesh caught 2 baby frogs. One still had its tail part. They were damn cute...

Then we saw this Black Forrest butterfly(our name for it was a black blue design..man it was pretty cool) It flapped its wings slowly but smoothly...it was pretty Hypnotic:)
The we were talking about snakes and within 4-5 minutes, we see a Green Tree snake crossing our trail....We played around with it a bit (see snaps..its pretty neat)...went ahead...ventured into a region which was termed as "NOT A TRAIL" just to see if we see a water fall... then realised we werent a "movie hero" to fight bears with a stick that we carried...

so returned back to the trail. But we spotted foot prints of Racoons .Then we reached the Lanier Falls- spent some time crossed over to a rock overlookin the swift flowing River Cape Fear-Pretty scary huh..:)... yup its a highway for bears to go from one place to another.... Heres where is Lanier Falls. Wher we spent some time in and around water...felt better after the sticky trail... This river is pretty rich with fishes like Lagremouth Bass, warmouth, bluegill, catish, American Eel. We werent prepared for any water stuff sadly...but no regrets... :)

Then we headed back home and it was getting really dark by now. About 7:30 and we were about 2 miles from the trail end.
Now this part is crazy: A FLY circled the leader amongst us three. Who ever would lead the fly would circle that guy. And it wasnt just for a few minutes. It followed us till we entered our Truck. We switched leading the trail and it would hop over to the leader of the trail..... So we named it Leader Lover Fly :)
Then at about 8:00 we finally came across the Bridge which we could recognise. A sure sigh of relief!!!! So named it Bridge of Good Hope..Then it was a 5 hour straight drive back home
Do take a look at the snaps and the website too if you wanna take a dip into the wild side of youself :)
Snaps: http://community.webshots.com/photo/384556894/384574907XjhFKF
Website: www.ncsparks.net/raro.html