Setting the blog rolling

Since the beginning of Jan 2007, we have been seriously thinking of seeing the world much more seriously than before.

Right from when we were very young, we have always been inspired by the outdoor and we used to go trekking at every given opportunity. Growing up, we were consumed by other priorities - academics and then career. But we never let the thought of embracing nature at any given opportunity. Aish does a lot of climbing, snow boarding and biking and myself and Nat, we bike and hike a lot.


Since Jan 2007, we have let ourselves be inspired a lot by a whole bunch of people, some of them you will find on the side links of this blog, who travel around the world by bicycle and each one with his / her own reasons for it. We want to do that as well but our interest also involves climbing mountains and that is something we want to combine with biking. Have biked quite a bit and reading even more about others experience have made us realise that this is not to be taken lightly or as a whimsical fantasy but requires careful planning and clear understanding of the consequences and the fact that once you embark on such a trip, you life changes completely and there may be no chance to fall back into your old way of life. We understand it now, but we are yet to assimilate it completely within ourselves and this is a process that requires time and patience and persistence. We have decided to give it all and see how the future pans out for us.

In this blog, we individually plan to log our thoughts, data, knowledge and progress towards our intended destination. We have not fixed any time line for this as this is not to be treated with rigidity but with patience.

This being the first post, I thought I would set the base for the three of us to start posting from now on.

Reasons to blog:

• A constant reminder for us that we are on a epic path to change our lives - potentially forever
• Data for us and for others to use and benefit
• A discussion forum for us to vet our ideas with others and get others inputs too
• Share the knowledge we distill in our journey for others to benefit from it
• Spend some time with the computer so we don't lose our typing skills :-)

So, here it goes. We have set the blog rolling now...