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Father-son duo to take a road trip to London
Road trips are exciting and thrilling, often one hears of such trips taken by friends but in a first, a father and son duo from city will venture on a road trip from Hyderabad to London. The duo will start their journey on April 24 and cross the boundaries of 16 countries on the landscape of over 17,000 kilometres within 55-day.
Hyderabad: Road trips are exciting and thrilling, often one hears of such trips taken by friends but in a first, a father and son duo from city will venture on a road trip from Hyderabad to London. The duo will start their journey on April 24 and cross the boundaries of 16 countries on the landscape of over 17,000 kilometres within 55-day.
Dr G V Prasad a business man and adventure lover started taking road trips three-year-ago along with his son Rakshith. Prasad said, “car is like a closed compartment and I always have chosen bikes for my journey, unlike car there is a sense of contact with the road and I can feel the air, which makes me realise what complete freedom means.”
Talking about their journey from Hyderabad to London, Rakshith said, “initially we will cross the Indian border from Guwahati to Myanmar, followed by Thailand, Laos, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France and United Kingdom would be our destination. We would be traveling approximately for 300 kilometers a day on our BMW R1200GS.” When asked about safety and planning, he said “our trip is mapped and organised by Viktorianz travel agency, apart from this we are also carrying essential equipment and servicing kit.”
“I started my journey with Vespa 150, then upgraded to a Hero Honda motorcycle, and almost after 20 years I mounted on Royal Enfield and thereafter I could not stop myself from venturing, we have completed many trips in India one of them was on the stretch from Khardung La to Kanyakumari a journey of over 12,460 kilometres, we have also voyaged on a round trip across the United States, from Miami to Miami covering over 16,000 kilometres.
Apart from this I have been on a road trip exploring the kingdom of Bhutan for about 7,850 kilometres, I have voyaged across the world by marking over 96,697 kilometres on a motorcycle,” said Dr Prasad. Our future ventures would be to Alaska, New Zealand and Australia. For this journey our only concern are the roads North East India, which are bad, rest all is assured, Prasad added.
BY Mayank Tiwari
