Bird’s eye view: A travel of more than 300 kms after a long time. My car was so keen to overtake everyone that I had to take my foot off the gas from time to time. Google map showed a travel time estimate of 6.5 hrs, which, with stops for meals, would be around 8.00 hrs, and so it was. We left at 7.15 am and clocked in at 3.00 pm. I was a bit wary of the road conditions because Dehradun to Bareilly was not a single highway, unlike, say, Dehradun to Delhi. You got on to NH34 and that was it. Dehradun to Bareilly was a continuous connection of roads, and we got passed around like a baby with a soiled diaper gets passed around by his sisters. There was a series of roads running north-south, and another series running east-west, and we kept zigzagging between them, overall travelling south-east. That said, road conditions were superb. I have said it in the hills, and I will say it in the plains, Uttarakhand govt maintains roads well, be it NH or not. It got hot as soon as we passed 9.00 am...