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Hearty thanks to all!
I know this would seem boring to thank one and all but I think its important !
The most frequently asked question to me was "How did your parents allow you?:O" They did and I thank my parents for being so open-minded,trusting me in whatever I did and allowing me for this wonderful trip. I was always in contact with them whether there wasnt any network,made it a point to find A STD booth. They were happy and more concerned about me,particularly about sending money if I needed. Before going my mom had asked me for my bank account numbers so that in case I fell short of money they could transfer it and I had told her "Dont worry..just in case im on the verge of going bankrupt,I'll open up a tea-stall there!
" Thank you for all the support and love. You are the best parents anyone can have,love you ! 
Thanks to Tushar Jadhav and Nilesh Shinde for being such good riders and even better companions and accepting to ride alongwith a nut like me!
Thanks to Nitin Manore for always being in contact and helping out. We regret not being there at your marriage. Well none of your adopted kids were present anyways so you still owe us a treat!
And we did celebrate your marriage at Leh typical DK style !
Thanks to Ketan Nikharge for all the help and the foot-pump too. I have got back what I'd promised you. See you soon !
Thanks to Satyen and Rishabh for all the small tips time and again,wished to meet you up there and have a G2G but anyways!
Thanks to Biru bhaiya and Alu bhaiya for always inspiring me through your trips and travelogues.Alu bhaiya I still have those wonderful lines with me and will always remain with me and keep inspiring me to write.
"Why pen down the anticipation, the possible journey or the disappointment, the experiences beyond? To share with those before me? But they've already experienced it. I'll only be telling them what they already know. To share with those after me? But they'll experience it some day. I'll probably be ruining their surprise. To share with those that never will? If they did not care enough to experience it themselves, will they really care about my perspective on it? Then who am I doing this for?
When in doubt, resort to logic... If I rule out those before me, those after me and those that never will, it leaves me with me. I write this for myself. I write this as a retirement plan. For in my final days when the body is less than ideal, when the mind is fickle, when those around me lie in wait for my convenient demise, I will have no better company than the memories I create here and now. And while the arrow of time will force my brain to flush out details to make way for new information, as the memories fade quickly and the details become sparse - ripe for nostalgic rewriting - it is this digital ink that will help me travel back in time, relive the moments, stay true to the experience, remember/realize that my life was not wasted, that I spent it with friends, with family, with faithful machines that braved the toughest terrains to allow me to live life instead of getting through it, to forge friendships that would stand the test of time, to forget those that betrayed me, to remember those I lost, to the Universe that came together to make me...me.
And if all goes well, maybe someday I'll be able to sit my children and my grand children down, share milk and cookies with them, open my big book of blogs - printed out in big bold fonts for the convenience of my dying eyes - and share with them my adventures, in the hope that they might someday rediscover our legacy...that which we discovered decades before them... Freedom." - Alankar Misra
Vishwas sir,your travelogue was quite helpful while planning the ride,mainly to remind the things which were to be taken and which were not to be taken.Thank you! And thanks to ramky whose maps proved useful everywhere.
Thanks to Saurabh Datye for all the support,all the riding gears and stuff,your saddlebags and shoes were really helpful. The shoes being the good surprise which held up in all conditions heat,soil,sand,mud,muck,gravel,tar,water,slush,poo and I guess must be the only motorcycle boots which were quite comfortable for riding,walking,hiking,trekking,crossing rivers,cutting poo cakes etc. etc.! Thank you so much for lending them.
Veeral you too should have come,would have been more fun, thanks for the tank bag anyways !
Mayur,George Uncle,Abhilabh,Husain,Rutesh thanks for the spare memory cards and Miitra for the spare batteries.
Viraj and Avinash thanks for the contact of Vivek and Ajay who even at the last moment designed the jugaad cover of saddlebags,it indeed was helpful.
Thanks to Reddy,Janardhan and Imran for the perfect tuning of the bike; and Vishal and Prakash from Bajaj for procuring the new rims and other spares on time.
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19.15358,72.843559 - Google Maps
Ph. Bike Point-Reddy 9821208568 or +919892825971
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Thank you Kamleshbhai Thakker and her cute daughter
for the new Ceat tyres. I promise I'll buy tyres for our car too from you all only !
A special mention of all the people of Ladakh who respected us,welcomed us and helped us everywhere ! Also all the military-men and policemen! Thank you very much! I salute you all!
Thanks to all my colony,school,college,office friends for always believing in me doing such extra-ordinary things!
And last but not the least all my biker friends not just from xbhp but bcmtouring,motoroids,xkmph,60kph,zigwheels,RSA,bik erni association,facebook etc. all over ! Thank you so much for encouraging,inspiring,teaching and for everything! I am incomplete without you all..THANK YOU !
P.S. Sorry if I forgot to thank anyone. Please remind me,i'll edit it and add it here !
Coming up later Planning of the ride... or Click HERE or http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/843012-post36.html
I know this would seem boring to thank one and all but I think its important !
The most frequently asked question to me was "How did your parents allow you?:O" They did and I thank my parents for being so open-minded,trusting me in whatever I did and allowing me for this wonderful trip. I was always in contact with them whether there wasnt any network,made it a point to find A STD booth. They were happy and more concerned about me,particularly about sending money if I needed. Before going my mom had asked me for my bank account numbers so that in case I fell short of money they could transfer it and I had told her "Dont worry..just in case im on the verge of going bankrupt,I'll open up a tea-stall there!
" Thank you for all the support and love. You are the best parents anyone can have,love you ! Thanks to Tushar Jadhav and Nilesh Shinde for being such good riders and even better companions and accepting to ride alongwith a nut like me!
Thanks to Nitin Manore for always being in contact and helping out. We regret not being there at your marriage. Well none of your adopted kids were present anyways so you still owe us a treat!
And we did celebrate your marriage at Leh typical DK style ! Thanks to Ketan Nikharge for all the help and the foot-pump too. I have got back what I'd promised you. See you soon !
Thanks to Satyen and Rishabh for all the small tips time and again,wished to meet you up there and have a G2G but anyways!
Thanks to Biru bhaiya and Alu bhaiya for always inspiring me through your trips and travelogues.Alu bhaiya I still have those wonderful lines with me and will always remain with me and keep inspiring me to write.
"Why pen down the anticipation, the possible journey or the disappointment, the experiences beyond? To share with those before me? But they've already experienced it. I'll only be telling them what they already know. To share with those after me? But they'll experience it some day. I'll probably be ruining their surprise. To share with those that never will? If they did not care enough to experience it themselves, will they really care about my perspective on it? Then who am I doing this for?
When in doubt, resort to logic... If I rule out those before me, those after me and those that never will, it leaves me with me. I write this for myself. I write this as a retirement plan. For in my final days when the body is less than ideal, when the mind is fickle, when those around me lie in wait for my convenient demise, I will have no better company than the memories I create here and now. And while the arrow of time will force my brain to flush out details to make way for new information, as the memories fade quickly and the details become sparse - ripe for nostalgic rewriting - it is this digital ink that will help me travel back in time, relive the moments, stay true to the experience, remember/realize that my life was not wasted, that I spent it with friends, with family, with faithful machines that braved the toughest terrains to allow me to live life instead of getting through it, to forge friendships that would stand the test of time, to forget those that betrayed me, to remember those I lost, to the Universe that came together to make me...me.
And if all goes well, maybe someday I'll be able to sit my children and my grand children down, share milk and cookies with them, open my big book of blogs - printed out in big bold fonts for the convenience of my dying eyes - and share with them my adventures, in the hope that they might someday rediscover our legacy...that which we discovered decades before them... Freedom." - Alankar Misra
Vishwas sir,your travelogue was quite helpful while planning the ride,mainly to remind the things which were to be taken and which were not to be taken.Thank you! And thanks to ramky whose maps proved useful everywhere.
Thanks to Saurabh Datye for all the support,all the riding gears and stuff,your saddlebags and shoes were really helpful. The shoes being the good surprise which held up in all conditions heat,soil,sand,mud,muck,gravel,tar,water,slush,poo and I guess must be the only motorcycle boots which were quite comfortable for riding,walking,hiking,trekking,crossing rivers,cutting poo cakes etc. etc.!
Thank you so much for lending them. Veeral you too should have come,would have been more fun, thanks for the tank bag anyways !
Mayur,George Uncle,Abhilabh,Husain,Rutesh thanks for the spare memory cards and Miitra for the spare batteries.
Viraj and Avinash thanks for the contact of Vivek and Ajay who even at the last moment designed the jugaad cover of saddlebags,it indeed was helpful.
Thanks to Reddy,Janardhan and Imran for the perfect tuning of the bike; and Vishal and Prakash from Bajaj for procuring the new rims and other spares on time.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
19.15358,72.843559 - Google Maps
Ph. Bike Point-Reddy 9821208568 or +919892825971
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you Kamleshbhai Thakker and her cute daughter
for the new Ceat tyres. I promise I'll buy tyres for our car too from you all only ! A special mention of all the people of Ladakh who respected us,welcomed us and helped us everywhere ! Also all the military-men and policemen! Thank you very much! I salute you all!
Thanks to all my colony,school,college,office friends for always believing in me doing such extra-ordinary things!
And last but not the least all my biker friends not just from xbhp but bcmtouring,motoroids,xkmph,60kph,zigwheels,RSA,bik erni association,facebook etc. all over ! Thank you so much for encouraging,inspiring,teaching and for everything! I am incomplete without you all..THANK YOU !
P.S. Sorry if I forgot to thank anyone. Please remind me,i'll edit it and add it here !
Coming up later Planning of the ride... or Click HERE or http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/843012-post36.html
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