Cycling in 4 states on single gear cycle 10: Sangareddy- Hyderabad (70 kms)

✪ Hyderabad ke logan
✪ No puncture- a wonder!
✪ Meeting with members of Vande Mataram Foundation
✪ Meeting with “Rajneesh” Ji
✪ Unprecedented connections- World is very small!
✪ Completed 785 kms in 9 days
✪ Difficult to hold mind in the present
✪ Half journey over, now tribal part calling

Hello all. Sharing joy and experience that I attained during this solo cycling expedition with you all through this blog. 9th day of the expedition, 2nd October. Today is Gandhi Jayanti as well as Sunday. After cycling across vast rural area with very few towns and hardly any cities, today I will reach to a significant Indian metro- Hyderabad! It is bound to be challenging- to see traffic jams, signals, waiting in traffic- after such a long highway ride! Today I will also complete half part and so now onward the end will be approaching. Faster and faster. Initially days are very slow, slowly day 1 of the expedition completes, then day 2 and so on. But now onward it will be psychologically so fast. Because, once I cross the half way mark, the mental work is as good as done. Mental monkeys are off the back (they were mostly off from day 1 actually). And I am short of words to say thank you to my cycle! What a great company it is giving me!

Cycling in 4 states on single gear cycle 9: Mannaekhelli- Sangareddy (82 kms)*

✪ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ನಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ!! (Bye bye my Karnataka)
✪ Wonderful interactions with students in Zaheerabad
✪ Felt as if a nano celebrity!
✪ Flavour of South India
✪ Completed 715 kms in 8 days
✪ Sleepless night in Sangareddy

1st October 2022, eighth day of the cycle tour! Slowly I am nearing the half distance. Today I am leaving Karnataka and entering the fourth state, Telangana. Today’s distance is 82 kms, slightly less than the distances I had crossed in recent days. Morning in Mannaekhelli in the school campus is beautiful! I did not have proper sleep, was awake since around 2 am. But this is almost the routine now. Lack of sleep, mosquitoes and all- the body has adjusted with that also! Our body is such a great asset!

Cycling in 4 states on single gear cycle 8: Kalaburgi- Mannaekhelli (96 kms)

✪ Slightly hilly terrain
✪ Wonderful support from the cycle and the nature
✪ Interactions with school students
✪ Enthusiastic school teachers
✪ Completed 633 kms in 7 days

Morning of 30th September, seventh day of the expedition! Yesterday night it rained in Kalaburgi. But as always the weather is clear in the morning. I was told that a few cyclists from Kalaburgi were going to meet me when I would leave. I waited for a few minutes for them. But they did not come. Instead one other cyclist passed by near me. I briefly interacted with him, asked him how to find proper road in the city and then left. Also I shared my live location on the coordination group for this expedition. Today I will have last stay in Karnataka, a small village in Mannaekheli.

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Cycling in 4 states on single gear cycle 7: Sindagi- Gangapura- Kalaburgi (90 kms)

✪ Major stage of the expedition
✪ Green lush roads in the nature
✪ Bhima and Ganagapura!
✪ A bliss to ride this way!
✪ On such journeys we happen to really meet ourself
✪ Meeting Shri Basavraj Ji in Kalaburgi
✪ Completed 538 kms in 6 days

Morning of 29th September, sixth day of the expedition and one major day in that today I am going to meet senior members of Bharat Vikas Sangam Shri Basavraj ji, Shri Shastriji and others in Kalaburgi. This expedition would not have been possible without their help. So before starting the ride, was feeling eager for this meeting. Yesterday in Sindagi. Shri. Dattuji helped me well. On the morning also, he came when I was leaving the house. Just feel gratitude towards all those who were there with me on each stage of the expedition. With company and help from all such people, I feel that it was not a solo expedition, but rather a collective effort.