I thoroughly enjoyed my 2 week vacation in North India. During the first week I was at Dehradun at OJ’s wedding along with Kini, VMK & Paddie; and in the second week I went on a solo motorcycle ride on OJ’s Royal Enfield Bullet through a portion of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand before riding the motorcycle back to New Delhi.

It was during this trip that I decided to take a break to travel a bit in the first half of 2010. Back in Bangalore, during one of our usual chats over chai, my flatmate Vinay convinced me that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I had to make the most of it.

Traveling around the world was always something other “lucky” people did. Having hosted many many travelers via couchsurfing in Bangalore, and being an active member of the Bangalore couchsurfing community, I had met and interacted with heaps of these courageous, adventurous, reckless, unconventional, carefree people; and here I was with a golden opportunity to apply all those fancy adjectives to myself.