Creating a livelog to post updates on my Leh bike ride. Hopefully the information will be useful to others just as other travelogues have been helpful to me.
July 6th
So finally I am on my way to Leh on a bike. For a working family man, like me, a million things have to line up for something like this to happen.

And then there are the anomalies of nature.

Precisely on the day I was to start, Uttarakhand got hit with a massive thunderstorm and flooding warning. And Sunday night it did stuck. Enormous amounts of rain everywhere. The extent of damage is yet to be known. However I already know of 2 lives lost and several property damage.
So in this backdrop, I snuck out quietly at 0615 hoping to avoid the wrath of nature.
But that was not to be. Nature with its watchful eye, sees all.
As soon as I had but progressed 20km, the fury opened up.
Yet "deeth" as I am, I persisted. I wasn't about to let go of an opportunity gained after years of perseverance.
So the day ended with a drenched to the bone rider nursing his ego somewhere in the vicinity of Ambala, having made it so far.