Bangalore to Goa Bicycle Touring 760 kms (9Days)
"If you ask me about this bicycle touring, am gonna sit all day sharing all my experiences and still its not gonna finish".
Day 1 (22 Feb ’17)
Starting the arduous journey at 10:45 am on 22nd of February for Goa which was around 610 kms from our planned route (although later on we went on a different one totalling it to ~700kms) from Hoskote. Taking a deep breath and glancing to the skies we hoped for the journey to be a memorable one. We had two MTBs at our disposal- Hero UT and Cosmic TRIUM.
On Tumkur road we stopped for our lunch. And at 06:15 pm, we stopped at a tollgate nearby Hirehalli station (it was this same station from where when we started for the Narsimhabetta trek and then were routed back to the station following a “no permission” issued by the villagers and police of the same village to climb that hill). We had some of our first pictures from the Canon 500D that time. The same camera provided me with the first ever feel of a DSLR and its lens.
Reaching Tumkur (70 kms), at 07:15 pm, we had the tastiest dinner of our lives following a rigorous workout of our legs and our sweat glands. And also the most difficult part for Ashis in this trip had also started rising which was his knee pain and believe me, looking at his expressions when he suffered from it at every pedalling he did I went on to give it a rating of 8/10 pain which he was going through. After the dinner, we bought some Moov ointment for Ashis’s knee and then searched for a place to camp on Google maps and found a perfect spot nearby a lake which was 9kms away from our current position.
