Pinge was fond of travelling, and before travel became commonplace in India, he visited, often in the company of his wife Kamal Pinge, places as far flung as Shankaracharya's Kaladi in Kerala, the desert of Kachchha, the border between India and the then East Pakistan just before the Bangladesh war erupted in 1971, Assam when Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984; and he wrote beautiful articles detailing his visits.
