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The Big 2009 Ride: Day 7 – Udaipur

The hotel that we had booked in Udaipur had claimed a view of lake Picchola – it indeed was a view of the lake, but mossy green far end of it – con job of a place! The consolation was that the rooms were nice and clean, the parking was safe for the bike and we would be spending the whole day out anyway.  We decided to stay.

This is day 6 of the ride and if you’ve missed the story till now, you can see the earlier 5 days on The Big 2009 Ride page. Continue reading The Big 2009 Ride: Day 7 – Udaipur

Our big 2009 trip – Pre-ride craziness

A month to go:

It all started when we got to know through one of those crazy forwards at work about how one could get a long break by coupling a few festival holidays and some paid leaves.  We thought we can make use of one of them, from the 19th of September to the 4th of October.  Initially, we dint really know what we would do with so many days off from the office.  After visiting all kinds of places on the internet, we thought we’d ride from Delhi to Bangalore, via Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharastra. We decided that we would send the bike on the train to Delhi, we would fly to Delhi and then ride down from the desert to the coast and back home.  It sounded great and we almost immediately tried to book tickets with Jet Airways to Delhi, which did not happen.

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