Last night I came back from Udaipur, after a nice but slightly hectic first multi-state meet of BCMTouring.

While I didn’t get a chance to explore Udaipur properly and could only go to a few places, meeting 43 fellow travelers from 7 different states of India was altogether a different experience.

To tell you the truth, I was taken aback by the kind of turnout that we received in Udaipur. We had initially expected 26-28 people to turn up for the meet and that number was easily shattered.

Overall it was a good experience, though I got to sleep very less during the four days I spent in Udaipur, 17 and a half hours in 4 days to be precise (7 hours on Thursday night, 2 hours on Friday night, 4 hours on Saturday night and 4 and a half hours on Sunday night). Add to this, I hadn’t gotten any sleep the day before I was to leave for Udaipur, but thankfully I didn’t fall asleep while riding, even though the road was mostly like this i.e. boring and I was feeling extremely sleepy during the 13 hour ride back to Delhi.

On another plus, my bike finally clocked 70k kms on the clock, while going to Udaipur and to top that, she did the Delhi – Udaipur run (712kms) without hitting the reserve even once i.e. I got 44.6kmpl – 47.4kmpl mileage from her while cruising mostly at speed between 70-80kmph with lots of wind drag.

I will post the travelogue and photos in some time to come, in the meanwhile you can check out this thread on BCMTouring, where rest of the BCMTians are already sharing their photographs, North meets west, photographs and videos.

Posting the first update from Udaipur, didn’t get a chance to post one earlier as have been a little to preoccupied with meeting BCMTians from various parts of India.

So far there are around 28 of us in the city right now and more are expected to join in soon enough. Though I am not getting much time to do sightseeing, but having a lot of fun, in fact today I went to sleep at 5 in the morning and woke up around couple of hours.

Here are a few pics from my camera for now, the first is that of me at NH-79 (for a change my photo).

Jaisamand lake around 52km from Udaipur

A macro from Saheliyon ki bari

It is almost time to head to Udaipur, just have to mount the luggage on motorcycle and wear shoes; I should be off to NH-8.

Though I tried my level best, but I couldn’t get any sleep before this ride and since Bhuwan is waiting for me at Jaipur and we have to get the things organized in Udaipur, there is no chance of postponing this ride.

Any ways, I will be updating this blog and as usual my twitter account, which would be updated much more frequently than the blog.