Day 2 :
Drive from Nagpur :

                 

We started driving from Nagpur after a quick breakfast at around 7.30 am, with me still sticking to the Driver seat. Amit was happy to stay at the navigator seat with the Google maps showing the blue arrow pushing us out of the City.

We were quickly out of the City and discussing about our next stop to be Gorakhpur (UP) that will be a 1050 kms drive for the Day ahead. Our first stop after Nagpur was at the border entry to Madhya Pradesh (MP). The weather still cloudy was not so Humid and with the winding Highway and the lush greenery on both sides did make us enjoy the drive. Forgot to mention that we were in the NH47 now.

                               

The National Highway in this part of MP is still a 2 lane Highway but the roads had still put up well to the heavy trucks that move between North and South. We were heading towards Sagar which is right in the middle of MP and from Sagar, we will had to still decide to take the Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow route or get into UP at Mahoba through the Highway 34 which will be still a two lane highway.

                               

As we were crossing MP slowly (compared to the first day drive), I started getting the differences between the South and North. There were increased number of 2 wheelers on the Highway, sticking to the left side of the road, it was required to be super cautious because there were few instances where the driver dragged the 2 wheeler to the middle of the road and somehow a simple buzz of the Horn was not reaching him, so at times I had to push the Horn continuously to get him to feedback by glazing at his rear view. People did use the Highways for their daily commute which made me realize that urbanization in MP is not as it happened in parts of North, West and South India. Still people stayed in villages and commuted to nearby towns for their jobs...