My first long Motorbike ride

South India Ride Being a South Indian myself, why this “South India ride”, you may ask! Well, I did that to myself too. It all began when I wanted to have a short ride in Leh and had rented a Himalayan there. This was during the “Landrover Defender Journey from Leh to Chandigarh” ( https://nsmcyberdude-thoughts.blogspot.com/2024/07/journey-in-himalayas-leh-chandigarh.html ) I met a distinguished young gentleman (for me young or old is nothing to do with biological ageing) name Mr. S Bhat who was from Hyderabad. He had just then finished the Landrover journey, as we were to begin. Seeing me in a riding gear, he enquired and later mentioned that I must do a ride in South Africa and a ride in Alps. He recommended a group called Goodwind Moto Tours.( https://goodwindmototours.com/ ) Now, you know how it works, the seed was sown! I reached out to Mr. Amit Desai of GMT. I always believe that we should go from the “known to the unknown”. The known places (even though I had n...