Posts from — April 2008

Cochin to Mangalore - Track log size too big for EveryTrail to recognize.

Kanyakumari to Cochin [Read more →]

Gandhigram to Kanyakumari via Nagarcoil [Read more →]

It is not as it seems… I am averaging at about 45km per hour

It has been three days and all the three days I have been riding for 8 hours to cover 300 odd kilometers. I am planning to change the schedule from Delhi and introduce some more days and make this almost a 80 day trip. Schedule till Delhi would remain almost unchanged.

Everyone buys balaclava for bike rides. But make sure that it is long enough to cover ur neck. Some cheap ones are small and ur neck gets burnt in the course.

Pondicherry to Gandhigram [Read more →]

It has been two days and we have been roasting in the Sun, riding without breaks, skipping lunch etc.

It is better to leave early (before 7 ) and try to reach the destination before 3:00pm

From Bangalore to Pondicherry (Auroville) [Read more →]

In about 10 hours I need to take off. But just now I figured out that my GPS is missing. It might be in office. I and my my family searched the entire house. It is nowhere to be seen. If it is not even in office, then I may have to postpone my trip. GPS receiver is the crux of my trip - I need it to geo tag photographs and publish digital tracks.

I need to get good sleep, but how can I sleep now??? It is funny - I need GPS to find out location info. Now how do I find the location info of my GPS?

Day 0, 0km

10 minutes ago I send my first status update through my cell phone.  Twitter Short code for India is 5566511. I was charged Rs.1.5 per SMS. According to Twitter, currently supported carriers are:

• BSNL North
• BSNL South
• BSNL East
• Idea
• Vodafone Essar (Hutch)

These carriers may or may not work at this point (no confirmation of complete support, but twitter is working on it):

• Reliance
• BSNL West
• Bharti Airtel

Carriers that twitter is  working towards, but not yet supporting:

• Aircel
• BPL Cellular
• Dishnet Wireless
• Escorts Communications
• Fascel
• MTNL
• Spice Communications

You can get my status updates on http://www.indiawaterportal.org/k2k/status/