Coorg - The BerryLane Experience

An hour into our trip and Dikshas like….what kind of terrain do you like best ma? She loves the mountains she said. And I’m actually thinking…and I realized I just love being on the road, in the countryside…driving down..I’m most in my element there, like I feel I come to life on a different level. And doing a road trip.....with Diksha......brilliant space to be in. 

Anyways, onto the trip itself, Coorg is essentially coffee estate country and is simply simply beautiful. And we stayed in BerryLane, a home stay in one of the estates so it was authentic coffee estate experience. Even finding the place was an adventure, as we lost our way twice and what we thought would be like 3 kms beyond Madikeri was over 30 kms beyond. But what's a road trip without that element of adventure, huh?

                                     

                                     The driveway into Berrylane

       

                                                          

                                              Berry Lane - A beautiful house

 

Nice large well done up balcony of BerryLane

Lots of hours spent in complete silence. It's a place where stillness speaks. These places re-energize so wonderfully, that it does make me wonder what life would be like living there........why do special days and special experiences have to be one offs? I wondered......and I thought if we could just 'be ' and flow in that space of awareness, throw out the ifs and the buts, open our hearts out to the beyond......maybe you know. It’s like wanting a brilliant road trip, but not wanting the potholes or twists and turns….it's when we can embrace them into the beauty of the trip is when we can be on our way.... :)

                                                                   

 

          Behind the house

  

Diksha peering into a deep well in their backyard

                                  

                                          A deep and high evening :)
The picture reminds me of Goldilocks for some reason. Guess it's about balance, the right bit of everything. But I sometimes think balance gets in the way....it seems to bring with it a sense of holding back, not flowing....like assessing risk, avoiding potholes.......if diksha and I hadn't lost our way in Bylakuppe, we would have missed the best part of the Bylakuppe experience. Lesson there??

There are times even in existing relationships when you feel a distinct energy shift that takes it to different levels.... I felt that with our car this trip...there was some kind of a communion that happened, and while he's seven years old, he got christened only now.....he's Nandi. 

Cheers, to yet another great trip...thanks Diksha and Nandi !! 

And when we're saying bye to Berrylane.......Diksha's like.....we'll be back :)