Priyanka Jena, Tanveer Taj along with their dogs, both Frodo and Cruise, are cooped up inside their own house at Mumbai. “I think our biggest problem is boredom, which is a privilege. We don’t have any reason to complain. Many people are going through a lot more,” says Priyanka.
However they’re also restless. “It is not just because of the pandemic. We like being in the company of Nature and outdoors as much as possible.”
2 decades back, the four of these did an All India excursion swimming beaches and trekking upward snowcapped mountains. With the majority of the country forced to a lock down, it’s just a past they reminisce around and long to re create. Luckily, they’d documented their travel five Go-Pros, two digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and also a camera. Snippets with the may be seen on their site, wheelsandtrails.com, along with their societal networking pages. However, Sony BBC Earth has packed their experiences to a series, Life from the Leash.
“Our journey goes quite a few years back,” recounts Tanveer of just how a four came together. “I am from Pune and had a pup, Frodo (a golden retriever) when I moved to Bombay in 2015. That is where I met Priyanka. A few months later, she brought another nugget into our lives — Cruise (a labrador mix).”
Tanveer and Priyanka loved the dogs and outdoors. “We camped out a lot,” says Tanveer. They began with excursions round Mumbai and subsequently moved to areas in Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka. They did not know anybody who moved long trips using their dogs and shared their own journeys on societal networking. “That is when it started snowballing. People got curious about how we were doing it. Everybody wanted us to talk more about it. So, we decided to give ourselves an identity online and called it Wheels and Tails.”
Travel guidelines
- Start them young: Exercising with dogs isn’t quite as hard as it might appear. They really are the happiest when they have been with you personally. Watch whether the dogs are becoming accustomed to the vehicle. Focus on bigger trips, while they’re still young.
- Packing is overriding: Some of the important essentials we always remember is your health care kits to those dogs. You’re going to be going to regions where there aren’t any vets around, and therefore you want to get armed with most of the medical equipment you might require just in the event your puppy drops ill. It is likely to be helpful to execute a collision track along with your vets on firstaid for your dogs.
Priyanka and Tanveer afterward left a bucket set to get places which they wanted to proceed with Frodo and Cruise. The latter enjoyed water. She wanted to shoot Cruise to find that the tides at Rameshwaram. The prior, that is a hill man, wanted Frodo to have the snow from the Himalayas. “We kept adding places and it became an extensive list,” Tanveer states. ‘What if we covered all the places in one long tour?’ imagined the bunch.
Following a year and a half of preparation, they led to get the very exciting trip in their lifestyles: a 120-day experience covering 20 Indian nations.
there have been hurdles . Finding petfriendly areas to stay, for example, was not simple. “The heartland of India has grown around animals. The people there are not uncomfortable with two dogs being around or having a meal with them. In the cities, we couldn’t find many places to stay. We got a lot of help from our social media community. People whom we have never met opened their doors to us,” says Tanveer.
The pleasure out-weighed the issues of this trip. They had a few of their very best moments of the own lives throughout the four weeks. “The New Year’s Eve in Tuticorin is one of the best we will experience in a very long time,” says Priyanka. “We were staying in this lovely surf school and were camping out for three days straight. Frodo and Cruise were completely off the leash. They were swimming constantly. And, everyone there adored them.”
Priyanka and Tanveer believed going for a filming team along but chose against it. “We wanted this to be a raw and candid experience. Even the presence of one or two or three people can make it seem like it is not authentic. The biggest USP of this show will be that it is completely self-shot,” claims that the latter, “We have not gone to touristy places. It is India like you have never seen before — through the journey of two people and two dogs.”
Life Away From The Leash premieres on May 31 in 10pm