![]() ![]() BHPian pumpy_raj a.k.a Rajesh who had to miss the 2012 drive due to unavoidable circumstances, needed a couple of days time to speak to his manager at the office before confirming. All of us put forth our convenient dates considering the holidays in our respective offices and the common dates were between August 6th and August 21st.Īvinash, Vishwa and I who were part of the 2012 trip had no problems planning our leave at the office for all 16 days. That meeting happened on May 7th and I was astonished that all 5 families were ready (it had never happened in the past!). Please check and let me know.Īll of them were interested and we decided to meet and make a more detailed plan. Approximate per family cost will be 1.5lakhs. We'll hire another vehicle in Leh for sightseeing. We can go around Leh in Tata Safari for 5-6 days and then again wives and kids return in flight and we drive back. Wives and kids will land directly in Leh by flight. The plan is that the husbands (currently I have discussed with Avinash) drive the Tata Safari till Leh. This is to mark the 10th anniversary of our previous Ladakh trip. Hello people, We are planning a Ladakh trip in August 2022. PLANNING AND PREPARATIONĬhecking my WhatsApp messages now, on May 1, 2022, I made this proposal to a broader group of 5 friends and their families. Both liked the idea and asked me to work out details of how I plan to combine the two. Over the next few days, I put forth this idea to My wife and also Avinash. Then a Eureka moment happened, and I thought “Hey, we can easily club both together - the family trip and the 10th anniversary celebration of our K-K drive!” I wanted to do the 10th-anniversary trip, but taking along my wife and daughter in the car was not going to be easy. The conversation ended there at that time, but the seed of a road trip had been planted in my head. Either we both go together, or we both don’t go”. She replied sternly “Last time you left me alone and went on a boys-trip. The best way would be to do a Ladakh trip again!”. Some days later I told my wife “It seems just like yesterday, but it’s been a decade since our Ladakh road trip!" and I added, "We were thinking of celebrating the 10th anniversary in some special way. That discussion with avinashsg stayed in my mind for long enough and the memories of that road trip in 2012 were refreshed. N.E.W.S - 2013 - Arunachal to Gujarat (N.E.W.S.We ran out of Road - 2012 - Kashmir to Kanyakumari.We both were like “We should do something like that again”.įor the people who haven’t read those travelogues of mine, below are the links. I’ve not done such a trip after 2012 and it’s now been almost 10 years to that!”. He said “At least you’ve done 2 big road trips (East to West and West coast) after the North-South Road trip in 2012. It was nothing more than just venting out the frustration of being locked down for the last couple of years. We were just cursing covid in general and remembering the pre-covid times and the nice mega road trips that we had gone on. Some days later, my friend and BHPian avinashsg and I were at a restaurant for dinner. That discussion ended there with nothing concretely decided. I proposed that we plan something within the country. But we needed a vacation without a doubt! During one casual discussion sometime in April, my wife and I accepted that a foreign trip was difficult in the short term. A Japan trip when our friends are there, could not become a reality. ![]() But then, who on earth knew what was in store the next year?Ģ020 came and we all know what unfolded. But since our friends would need some time to settle down, we decided that we will plan it for the 2020 season. Since March-May is the Cherry Blossom time, it was the perfect time. My wife’s desire of visiting Japan only grew stronger as it would be better when we have somebody there. It was the April of 2019 a friend of ours was on the cusp of shifting to Japan on an official delegation for 3 years. This is a travelogue of an 8000km road trip that we did between the 5th to 21st of August 2022 ![]() BHPian hemanth.anand recently shared this with other enthusiasts. ![]()
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