3rd Morning of Dec a week short since I broke my hand am back on my motorbike and headed out to Tura Meghalaya, map says will be 900+ km each way and I presume there will an additional 200- 300 km as we wander in Meghalaya so maybe 1200 km each way
The event is NERM, the event of Bullet owners of the Seven sisters and 1 brothers + riders from Nepal, Bengal+Mumbai+Bihar+Gujrat +Madras, to name a few.
This would be my 4th trip to Northeast for NERM, and boy were we excited felt good to be in the saddle again, This is a BYOT event aka Bring your own tent, and all other stuff one might need to sleep
The same bike I crashed with The Himalayan will be my steed on this trip.
We set off at 0600 hours on 3rd Dec; we were set to traverse 600km approx. to Islampur, in West Bengal on the first leg of the journey.
We took out 1st break after having crossed 250 km approx., where we met with another rider who was also headed to NERM
Living on coffee and ½ full tummy we were doing well, maintaining average of 80kmph, and well within the speed limit set, as we made our way.
We regrouped after 450 km; we were 150 km short of Islampur our night halt destination. The roads were good expect 50 km after Dalkhola.
At ISlampur we met some friends who were also headed to NERM from Patna, now we 5 would be riding together the next day.
As we rode on, we stopped at a Tea estate to take in the sight and smell the fresh tea leaves, also to chew on some of the leaves before we were on our way again.
Today our destination was Bongaigaon in Assam; we chose to take a longer route and not the shortest as we rode, road conditions once again excellent for most part of the way
We stopped for a late Brunch
and whiled away almost 2 hrs chit chatting, we had crossed 3 states by now
We were at a Punjabi Dhaba and being winter we were happy to have bajra da roti and Sarson Da saag.
we were back on our bikes by 1300 hours and headed off towards Bongaingaon once again,
Approx at 1740 hours darkness set in and we made friends with 3 lovely girls who are preparing for there 10th Standard exams.
WE decided to look u up Google and get our self a hotel nearby, with an enclosure for security of our bikes, and just so we did not have to unload our bags for the night , Hotel Lucky was what we went with near the station, very basic hotel at Rs 1000/ room.
We called it a day here , having completed 1000km odd till now and we would be going another 150 km to the venue at Tura.
awesome
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DeleteEnjoy your trip. Great going.
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