What an "eventful" ride. Started fairly early, so early that I rode almost until mahabs in the dark. Actually it was kinda scary at times. I better start a bit late next time. Was feeling good, and was about to turn back and my luck ran out, and had a flat. Looks like riding in the dark is also detrimental that I must've run over a ton of glass shrads. ECR seems to be quite a deadly stretch of road. I could see glass shrads (from vehicles which met accidents) all through the route. Don't understand why they don't make it two-lane and put a divider in between. So sad to see so many wrecks on the way. Sigh.

Anyways, turns out that my new spare tube was also damaged, and it won't inflate. Luckily had my patch kit, patched my old tube and even more luckily the tube held up until I got back. But couldn't inflate fully, and the stiff headwinds meant that the way back was painfully slow. Started running out of gatorade mix, and I knew that water won't do for me - so I stopped at a coconut place, but that guy wasn't around. Stopped again after MGM, and found a really small place that makes amazing tea. The old man who runs it puts a lot of ginger and sugar to boot, and it was yummy. In true TFN style, had a tow pieces of chikki too :). Got fried on the way back, but happy that I didn't have to take an auto on the way back home. Have to check the spare tubes from time to time. Weirdly, I did the entire TFN with no flats, and with the faulty spare tube to boot! :). Saw Vaz and a few more people on the way back.