Re: A White Bullet. 2 Guys. 60 Days & 8300km in South India. Now Mumbai to Mizoram - 30,000 km compl

Superb dudes..!!

Re: A White Bullet. 2 Guys. 60 Days & 8300km in South India. Now Mumbai to Mizoram - 30,000 km compl

No Words..Lucky this was not before two years,Where all my debts came in..I might have quit everything and rode off....Such an inspirational thread...Keep going

Re: A White Bullet. 2 Guys. 60 Days & 8300km in South India. Now Mumbai to Mizoram - 30,000 km compl

Awesome write up . Very detailed. loved it.

Re: A White Bullet. 2 Guys. 60 Days & 8300km in South India. Now Mumbai to Mizoram - 30,000 km compl

Gr8 going guys-lucky you!

Re: A White Bullet. 2 Guys. 60 Days & 8300km in South India. Now Mumbai to Mizoram - 30,000 km compl

Namaste everybody. its been some time I visited xbhp. Just went through the whole thread - can't believe this is my story. and i can't thank enough the people who have motivated us. thank you guys. thanks a lot.
anyways, I just thought I would write down some more updates. after hyderabad, (the last stop on this thread) we went on to vijaywada, rajahmundry. the mighty godavari & krishna amazed us. the food was more than delicious. specially the tea. then we went to visakhapatnam, and fell in love with the city. If ever I chose to end up living in a city in India, it will be visakhapatnam. we stayed at a friends place there for 5 days. and did nothing absolutely nothing . from there on we went to bhubaneshwar. so many beautiful temples (one list says there are 700 temples. no wonder its called city of temples). the food changed. the dish that can never go wrong - egg dal tadka. and their famous sweet chenna poda. from bhubaneswar, I departed for a wedding while DK continued the journey. we will meet again after a couple of weeks at Dhanbad, the place where we first came to know each other, became friends & spent amazing 4 college years. Few pics till Dhanbad.

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From Dhanbad, we started off towards Kolkata. One of my another best friend would join us there for Bhutan. We loved Kolkata but couldn't ride there on bikes. Too crowded for us. From Kolkata we started North, reaching Murshidabad via Mayapore. Mayapore was fine, nothing much to talk about it, but Murshidabad was a different thing altogether. A city whose history can rival that of Delhi, agra, lucknow, hyderabad, but now lying relatively unknown to us, Indians. I loved evrything about it, from majestic Hazarduari palace Chardwar temples. Streets that would reminded us of Kerala to tea made with jaggery. We stayed 3 days there, celebrated DKs 27 birthday & moved towards Darjeeling. Visitng Darjeeling in winters helped us roam there around freely. We visited Sundakphu (not exactly Sundakphu. we didn't have a guide as usual so, we had to stop at halfway & spent 2 days at a beautiful 2-house village called Tonglu). Our new friend also ran a marathon there & we continued north towards Sikkim. We had been to Sikkim before in our college days & knew what to expect. But these were winters, and North & East Sikkim needs proper permissions for riders. DK being DK didn't have complete papers (although its generally me who is slack at such things, but I won't miss a chance of getting at him). I really wanted to go Gurudongmar Lake & Zuluk, but we couldn't go. So, we moved ahead towards Bhutan. The area before Bhutan, along the road connecting Kalimpong with Jaigaon is beautiful in its own right. I had seen tea gardens on hills but tea gardens on plains have their own charm. As we entered Bhutan, we noticed how few people live there & how clean the country is. Alcohol is insanely cheap. Having seen Indian Himalayan ranges, I did not find Bhutan as beautiful. But the people are so good. And almost everybody speaks Hindi. We had had more trouble communicating almost in all non - hindi speaking states of India as compared to Bhutan. Thimpu - the capital - is my dream city. It has all the elements that makes a city, but it is so peaceful. Even our new friend, who has lived in Milan, Paris, St Petersburg, Dubai etc etc. was in love with this place. We stayed in Bhutan for 20 days and visited just 3 cities - Thimpu, Punakha, Paro & areas around them. After Bhutan, we parted ways, our new friend flew to Bombay, DK continued his journey towards east, while I stayed back in the border town of Jaigaon for a couple of weeks. I then joined DK again for Meghalaya, and holy cow was that a good decision. I had been Meghalaya before, but it was with family. This time we really went to the deepest parts of Meghalaya and couldn't believe how beautiful a place could be. We stayed at Mawphlang (the sacred groove village), Cherrapunji, Nongriat (the double decker root bridge village), Mawlynnong (cleanest village) & Shnongpding (prettiest village in Dawki area).

Re: A White Bullet. 2 Guys. 60 Days & 8300km in South India. Now Mumbai to Mizoram - 30,000 km compl

finally, the current status is that DK continues his journey in the north east with the support of north east's awesome bike riders - something we couldn't have imagined ever. He says he has now covered more than 38,000km, although the number doesn't matter any more. I am currently in bangalore for a project of mine, but otherwise staying at home - Ghaziabad. travelling continues for me, but occasionally. I went to Varanasi for Holi for a week. felt the magic that everyone talks about and left with a promise to come back in winters for a longer period. went to kasol with a group only to understand, again, that traveling with group is not my thing. but the journey hasn't ended. and i don't think it ever will now. what started as a rebellious decision to quit job, turned out to be the most fulfilling 1.5 years of my life. I have done a lot of things that people dream of - I cleared IIT-JEE, I was earning loads of money as a first employee in a great startup etc. etc. but somehow i was never happy with them. now, i live with my parents, earning nothing, but am at much more peace with myself. This means i am more truthful to myself. I speak truth easily. Those petty lies, seemingly harmless, that I used make up, just to impress others but eventually made my life miserable, are gone. impressing people is not a priority anymore. i fear fewer things now.
what we did was no small feat, but it was not anything extra ordinary either. i can bet, if anybody does this trip, he will do it better than us. better in terms of places visited, people met, photos taken...and all other parameters that there could be. because we were lazy, sometimes shy, unjustly miserly, afraid. but we also realised there is no end to what you can see or do. we just needed to be happy with what we were doing & go at our own pace. we agreed on not to put the extra effort. rather we believed in things that were happening effortlessly.
before i went on this journey, i used to read travelogues and get goosebumps reading them. I still get goosebumps reading them. but i never expected that my story also be one of them. but as i said, the journey hasn't ended.

the trip can be followed on instagram @lonelyindia (DK's handle) & @mybulletpoints (my handle)