Time: Aug 14th PM - Aug 17th AM
Place: Hubli, Yellamma / Savadatti, Bailhongal
Company: Wife, daughter, mother
Highlights: With a long weekend, had not planned anything. But then a sudden death in the wife's family led us to plan an impromptu trip to her home town. With days at hand, we added few places and another event.
Day 0: Aug 14th: Took the overnight bus to Hubli from Rajaji Nagar at 10 pm (even though bus starts from our place at 7 pm!)
Day 1: Aug 15th: Reached at 6 am. Ablutions. Went to Matha for my Father-in-law's annual rites. Back home. Independence day celebrations at the apt where we were staying. Good display of talent. Slightly dampened due to drizzle. Initial plan was to return to BLR via bus from Bailahongal but thankfully got tatkal train ticket from Hubli, so cancelled the bus tickets.
Day 2: Aug 16th: Left home early at about 9 am to Yellamma Temple at Savadatti in local bus. I had not done proper research and so we took an elongated route. Ideal route would have been via Dharwad. Thankfully got the two buses in good succession. Reached temple at around noon, had good darshan and sat for almost an hour in the premises. And then took auto to bus stand and from there bus to Bailahongal. We reachedthe relative's house around 3 pm. Spent about 2 hours in their house reminiscing about the departed. Bit of weeping by one and all. Then took bus to Hubli, reached about 8 pm. Last minute packing and we left to railway station. Caught our train back to BLR.
Day 3: Aug 17th: Reached home safely.
Overview: A short family trip - mainly for the departed souls (spouse's father and father's sister). Yellamma temple was a bonus - first time for me, my mom and daughter.
