Bicycle Tour across Europe, dedicated to World Peace and Understanding
A tour that I undertook with my friend, Aisola Ravi Shankar, it demanded hectic, wide-ranging preparations for about a year and culminated in a 9-month-long journey - May 1980 to Feb 1981 - across 13 countries. The tour took us close to thousands of people in the cities and small towns and villages of Europe, and enabled us to mutually share many things about India and their respective countries.
We pulled it off on an incredible budget of $350 on each, lived 270 days each full of excitement, desperation, anxiety, discovery and fulfilment, and had a fantastic media coverage right through, with over 45 newspapers interviewing us.