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Project : Solo Wheels :- 32,000 Kms | 150 Days | 3 Countries | 1 Rider
Hey all !!
Holiday Greetings !!
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On the eve of my 30th Birthday, November 5th 2017; i had “The Talk” with my Manager .
Few hours later, folks at the office asked : Hey congrats !!, “ So Where are you going next ??” (Implied : Which company / location)
I said:” Everywhere !!”
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Solo Wheels is a bike trip I am about to Embark upon from February 10th , 2018 . The plan is to cover the entire India , parts of Nepal and Bhutan on my CBR-250 ( The fury ) . The aim of this trip to explore every landscape and experience every culture these countries has to offer. Yes-Just for the heck of it !!.But I don’t want to just visit the touristy places, click pictures ,tick the boxes and come back . I wanted to make sure that this trip cover all the off beat locations or as a traveller would say –“The hidden gems” as well . After all , Robert frosts poem about the” road less travelled” has to be taken literally as well
.For this I decided to float Google form online to my friends to give their inputs . The questionnaire was designed to bring out these locations as well . And Voila !! after 3 weeks I have 800 + location entries throughout these countries. .Request you guys as well to fill up this form to make this dream ride of mine the biggest milestone of mine.
I am hoping to share the pictures and experiences of these places during the trip in this thread along with the pre-ride planning and preparation part so that it might be useful for someone else as well.
More about the trip, preparations , about me and other details post approval .
Holiday Greetings !!
“Routine is the enemy of time”
This quote by Jedidah Jenkins who has travelled 7000 miles in the American sub-continent on a bicycle was just stuck in my head for the past few months .It just stuck me that I am turning 30 in a couple of months and I am nowhere near to fulfilling my life dream :- A Pan India Road trip on a bike . How did the time go by so fast ?? and how did i forget that the very motivation behind all those sleepless nights at work and at school/College was to eventually go on a such a trip. And now I am starting to realise that its not sustainable to keep switching Jobs every one and a half year ,once I get done with roaming around the near by places wherever I am located. ( 3 Jobs and a Post-graduation degree in the last 8 years) . I don’t want to spend my old age in regret of places not seen ,food not tasted and people not met.Quest for newer lands kept me restless and disturbed._ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
On the eve of my 30th Birthday, November 5th 2017; i had “The Talk” with my Manager .
Few hours later, folks at the office asked : Hey congrats !!, “ So Where are you going next ??” (Implied : Which company / location)
I said:” Everywhere !!”
_ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Solo Wheels is a bike trip I am about to Embark upon from February 10th , 2018 . The plan is to cover the entire India , parts of Nepal and Bhutan on my CBR-250 ( The fury ) . The aim of this trip to explore every landscape and experience every culture these countries has to offer. Yes-Just for the heck of it !!.But I don’t want to just visit the touristy places, click pictures ,tick the boxes and come back . I wanted to make sure that this trip cover all the off beat locations or as a traveller would say –“The hidden gems” as well . After all , Robert frosts poem about the” road less travelled” has to be taken literally as well
.For this I decided to float Google form online to my friends to give their inputs . The questionnaire was designed to bring out these locations as well . And Voila !! after 3 weeks I have 800 + location entries throughout these countries. .Request you guys as well to fill up this form to make this dream ride of mine the biggest milestone of mine.I am hoping to share the pictures and experiences of these places during the trip in this thread along with the pre-ride planning and preparation part so that it might be useful for someone else as well.
More about the trip, preparations , about me and other details post approval .
. I am still in my notice period at work . So office + pre ride planning is keeping me occupied.
) , routing had to be split into different zonal geographies. Considering the first 300 entries to the Google doc , the route looked somewhat like this 
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. Will keep everyone here posted.
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