Rider's Own Way To God's Own Country

After all the boring days of work at office, we wanted to utilize our Christmas leaves with an unplanned trip to no where. Yes exactly no where, NO PLAN is the best way for a traveler to start his journey. As it was really a long break, we wanted to prepare our selves with proper travel gears. It all started with picking up sleeping bags from Decathlon on our return journey from one of our unplanned week end get away.

Where to go?? North Karnataka, Kerala, Shimoga or Tamilnadu.. Ok let's stop here and decide our route on each day.

As we were approaching our start date, couple of visits to JC road to pick up some spare and a luggage carrier kept us busy. Finalizing the carrier from one our fellow traveler made us relaxed about our luggage. We carried the carrier from Indira Nagar to Banasankari in car as it was too big to carry in a bike. Next day we ramped up our boring work to reach workshop to fix the luggage carrier, which had an extra bit which would hurt the bike frame. We cut the extra bit and hammered couple of humps to get the frame in shape. We got our hands dirty in fixing the carrier. Since we were missing some of the spanners, we could not fasten all the nuts. Later we took the bike to the show room to fix it. We realized having right equipment will make the job easy.

Where to Go?? No plans yet..

We decided to meet up at a common place for segregation and packing, so it would be easy for us to start early. Satish took the bike for a test ride and also to pick his luggage. It made him be conscious to ride the bike with the luggage carrier in Bangalore traffic as the traffic would always be bumper to bumper. We hate it. Yuckkk!!! Bangalore traffic. I had to rush to see my niece before she would leave back to London. As usual we met up late at around 12 PM. After a quick sip of beer and some random topic; we were still not clear on where to travel. Our plan was just hard as the below image, just knowing we mostly will hit any of these 4 states.

Day 1 - Expedition Kick Off
Day 2 - Entering Kerala
Day 3 - The Maoist Zone
Day 4 - On To The Mountains
Day 5 - The Rain Forest
Day 6 - Ondu Quarter Saku
Day 7 - Top Of South India
Day 8 - My Best Birthday Ever
Day 9 - The Crash and Blast
Day 10 - The Beautiful Kuttanad at Alleppey
Day 11 - The Dream Come True
Day 12 - Beer !!! No Queue
Day 13 - The Light House Experiment
Day 14 - The Ultimate Beach Ride
Day 15 - From Sea Beach to an Abandoned House
Day 16 - Expedition Closure