Trip back from Jatni

Well as today it is Diwali, I decided to get some good amount of crackers for it. My obvious choice was Jatni, where the wholesale prices lure me whenever I plan my Diwali celebrations in advance. Day before yesterday evening Praveen & Me planned. We four (Me, Praveen, Naresh & Chadda) started at 9.00am. Well it is around 26 kms.Shopping part was great. Then at 11:00am we started back, now owing to the guidance of a local we started on a road which according to him was straight enough to get us back to Bhubaneswar. After ten minutes the road became narrower and narrower. Another local man confirmed the route to follow but concluded with "Be Careful ! ". It really started ringing the warning bells. There was no space even for turning back, so we had to continue. We had a climb of around eight feet on a slope which gave us with a road narrow enough for a bicycle to go. This dirt road was on the side of a railway track which went on for 3-4 kms. On the other side was a slope down upto ten feet. Then this track came to an end with us having to lift our bikes across the railway track. It was turned into one helluva task when a man passing by asked us to speed up the process as a train was due to pass by.This really started off a volley of profanities on the person initially recommending us this path. And guess what? After our 2nd bike was lifted off the tracks & we took the slope down, the train rumbled past by. Well that I can say as real timing! After continuing for another 4 kms on a more muddy track by the side of a canal we encountered a point which drove us all nuts. We had to cross a canal and only way to do that was to go on a concrete slab of 50 mtrs length & 1 mtr wide. Sounds easy, right? Well how about having water flowing 15 feet below it. More over the concrete slab was "S" shaped at both the end. This blew our fuses out.We stepped off our bikes, stopped other persons from crossing the bridge/slab(whatever U call it...!) and then started walking across with the bikes back to back. With complete silence westarted our walk, any noise made by any of us was rewarded with some good profanities by the rest. Anyway we crossed it and managed soon to get to the main road. Somehow those few minutes were filled with some concentration, a bit of risk & an element of uncertainity. but guess what, aftr we crossed the last hurdle, one thing ruled, an adventure worth remembering.... A good country side biking on some unknown & challenging tracks. Hey I saved something for the last: " !@@#$%^&*(*%@#!#$#$^^$#$@!%^#$*(()#!~#%^^ " for the person suggesting the road.