A month to go:

It all started when we got to know through one of those crazy forwards at work about how one could get a long break by coupling a few festival holidays and some paid leaves.  We thought we can make use of one of them, from the 19th of September to the 4th of October.  Initially, we dint really know what we would do with so many days off from the office.  After visiting all kinds of places on the internet, we thought we’d ride from Delhi to Bangalore, via Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharastra. We decided that we would send the bike on the train to Delhi, we would fly to Delhi and then ride down from the desert to the coast and back home.  It sounded great and we almost immediately tried to book tickets with Jet Airways to Delhi, which did not happen.