As this is my first post over here since I have joined xBhp so I will start with spiritual tour. I was in Bhopal to attend one of my chadhhi friend's wedding on 16th Feb, however I was lucky that I had reached 2 days before after covering the Mount Abu and Udaipur. As I had 2 days to spend in Bhopal which is like third home to me so I had nothing to do in Bhopal. Once, my father said that “Life without Aim is useless” and I made one aim last year when I was in Rameshwaram that I will try to cover as many as Jyotirlinga in 2016. I visited SriSailam in month of Jan 2016 which made my count to 4 (Mahakaal, Rameshwaram, Mallikarjunam and Bhimashankaram) out of 12. As I was in MP and there are two Jyotirlinga among of 12. I had already visited Mahakaal Baba Ujjain earlier so Omkareshwaram this time.

First challenge was to make mind to ride a Royal Enfield ThunderBird 350 as I belong to that community who did not like RE but somehow I made my mind to ride the TB350 as I left with no other option. Second challenge was to drive in cold with bare naked hands as friend had only Riding Jacket and Helmet, to overcome this I started late around 7:30 AM from Bhopal. I couldn’t stop myself to click picture of Raja Bhoj statue at Bhopal Lake.



While riding at Bhopal Indore highway you had to take a leap of faith to your sixth sense as you might encounter bikers coming to your way by wrong side.You also had to check villagers at the crossing. Somehow I didn't encounter any of these scenarios, however I saw many guys who wanted to race with me as I was riding slowly as this was my first experience with RE for a long drive and to avoid any kind of incident, I had to throttle up.

After a 2.5 hours ride I was at Indore city junction where either you can take ring road exit or city exit. I was about to take the ring road exit then I suddenly saw my school where I was Computer teacher. I had a small chit chat session in school. After leaving school, I saw this Baba who is riding the bicycle however I didn’t get a chance to interact with him.



After the ring road, real pain begins due to single lane state highway with more than 50% Ghat section with bad traffic. My ride is FZ16, so at beginning it was very uncomfortable for me to ride TB, however at the end of ride I can say that I enjoyed the TB ride with comfort but with a bit butt massage. Last but not the least, I had to push TB for around 1 KM as I trusted the fuel bar indicator which was showing 1 bar. So you guys can understand how was my condition at that time. I reached Bhopal around 7:00 PM which concluded my ride for that day.
Here are some pictures of my ride.

ODO at morning


TB350 at pit stop


butter smooth road when you take left turn (coming from Indore side) for Omkareshwar



Omkareshwar Temple



bank of Maa Narmada



view from Omkareshwar Temple


Omkareshwar Temple view from bridge


Mamleshwar Temple


Omkareshwar Dam


total ODO.. Bhopal to Omkareshwar to Bhopal


shadow selfie with TB