It was couple of months long, a dream was hovering in my mind to go for a motorbike journey exploring heart of Konkan. Since i had Avenger 220 in my life :), i just feel to hit the road explore world around me. Though i had a long ride to GOA, this was going to be a different lifetime experience.
I floated my travel plans to some of my friends and important thing did was declared my leave plans in my company :). That must be important part of any vacation planned by working folks. Based on season and availability of interested friends we decided to begin our journey during Ganpati Festival week. Sep - Oct is good period to visit konkan, and weather forecast was also showing good signs. Another reason was that we would have got a chance to witness ganpati festival in Konkan.
Few of the friends were very interested but semi-finally it boiled down to 3 of us. We decided to begin on 22 Sep 2012. But one had to drop due to medical emergency at his home. We postponed travel plan to 29 Sep but he was unlucky. Finally only 2 of us: me and Rohit decided to begin on 29 Sep 2012 :).
Our main aim was to explore the Konkan SEA-SHORE line like the Californian Coastal drive. And with the 8 days time period we had Malvan to Alibag on our radar. Initial plan was to start from Malvan first just to avoid more Ganpati Festival crowd. We continued with same plan for our 29 Sep travel. Weather forecast has shown possibility of rains on day 2 and day 3 but now there was no backing off :).
Finally me and Rohit came with some rough list of places to cover throughout our journey. Frankly we had a concrete plan for first and second day only and had decided to prepare further day plans at runtime :). Its very difficult to plan and predicate future, days ahead when it is based on many factors. We had anticipated few things, believed and moved on :). Within less available time i managed to gather the required biking accessories. We were all set with my Avenger 220 & Rohit's ThunderBird 350. I was damn excited and was looking for it because it was first longest journey of my life and wonderful experience waiting for us :).
Putting below marked map of our whole journey we covered first :), to give you quick whole picture. I have tried to cover all days journey in details further
