The Legend of Pinocchio
The trek to Kille Rajgad (taken up by all but one regular Knights, plus one squire) is one of the memories we knights will remember till eternity. The torrential rains, the green countryside, great locations and greatest friends made this trek one of those places/times which are mentioned every time we meet.
This was also the trek where "The Legend of Pinocchio" was born...
The Distress
This being a 2 day-trek, we carried lunch for one time, and raw materials to cook for all other meals, with the help of stove we carried. Now those of you who have used (or at least tried to use) a kerosene stove, know that lighting it is an art, the most essential tool for that being a pin to clean the holes. Of course, since the tasks were distributed, we ended up carrying 3 pins, none of which fit the stove in question.
The Knight in Split Pants to The Rescue
Those of you who are "trekkies" will know that at the camp sites with at least semi-permanent dwellings (in this case a temple), people often leave things which fellow-travellers will find useful, like extra matchboxes, a packet of kerosene, stove-pins etc. So, it fell upon us to search the nooks and crannies of the (by that time) dark temple. It was in this quest, that out guest squire in his Split Pants (dubbed so because of a wardrobe malfunction, more about it later) proved his worth.
He never returned from a round of temple pin-less. In all his rounds, he found more than a dozen pins, (often in or near the places others had looked) leaving the rest three of us (combined) behind by at least half a dozen. His exploits prompted us to dub him on the spot as "Sir Pin-occhio, The Seeker of Pins", a name which he proudly carries to date (or at least, we persist in calling him that).
Of course, as all the followers of Saint Murphy would guess, none of those pins would fit the stove, and we had to cut our trip short, spending remaining time on milk-powder added to cold water and raw maggie noodles.
- For I am The Great Eagle...
P.S. For mre about "Knights of The Round Table", click on "Round Table" in the "Labels" links.
12 comments:
wow sounds like a magical trek adventure!
Keshi.
@Keshi: Yes, that was a trek we won't forget... Apart from this, there was the incident of "Split Pants", a puzzle about halving the distance involving wet jeans, some darkness-and-silence show by clouds in the night and a narrow escape for one of us.
ewwww milk-powder n cold water, raw maggie noodles??
woooff lol
did u lose weight??
heyyyy fleiger-chan im looking forward to ur pic!
thank uuuuuuuuu!!
**narrow escape for one of us.
what happened?
Keshi.
Wokies !!
Prev post :
Well , i cant sign into any of the sites .. so , well ...
Split Pants .... that sounds like good material for a future post !
@Nikichan: Don't worry. That was only 2 meals, so we couldn't lose that much weight.
@Keshi: That was actually a funny episode of wrong perceptions and missed steps ;) Will tell you later.
@Deepa: Well , i cant sign into any of the sites .. so , well
Which sites? I guess all the links are to my previous posts, right?
Split Pants .... that sounds like good material for a future post !
Finally... I do my best to get everybody's attention to those words, so that I can write about it, and only 1 person acknowledges it... Thanks, the post is coming up soon :D
oki :)
Keshi.
at first glance of Pinocchio, I thought the word was that famous punjabi abuse! ;)
small small incidents turn out legends which last for a life time..
and you are very true when you say that in trekking, a group often leaves some or the other thing behind .. once we left a cooking pan behind (though I doubt it was in a condition to be used as a cooking pan again..!!!)
@Keshi: Patience is virtue, my friend ;)
@Sid: And what word would that be?
And Knights live in legends, right? What exactly happened to that pan?
well.. the Word.. umm... ok.. hold your tongue and say Pant Coat.. ;)
And the PAn.. well we made Maggi in that - by holding it(literally) over fire (directly) which we had made out of wood, sticks etc..
After 3 rounds of MAggi making.. the Pan was black from below, yellow from inside and the handle was lying in 1 corner..so thought better to leave it there!!
@Sid: Ouch...
And ouch for the pan too. That's why we normally carry a stove if there is overnight trek :D
Can you explain how the handle got separated?
handle: umm.. see a person had to hold it over the fire..so to avoid getting his hand near the fire, it was held from AFAP (as far as possible;)
this resulted in undue stress on the joints..BY the 2nd round, one of the 2 bolts holding it together was off and by the 3rd round, the second bolt just managed to hold on finally giving in by the end of round 3 !
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