After two days of great roads and great company, it couldn't get much better. However, an hors from one of our destinations the lowest of lows as I watched my riding partner disappear into a cloud of tire smoke only 50 meters in front of me and get high-sided off his motorcycle. I stop and run to him and hear groaning bit nothing coherent. My friend eventually wakes up and knows who he is and there is a blur until the Thai road rescue service appears and takes him off to the nearest hospital in Khon Kaen. I then make that terrible phone call to his wife and mice and give what information I can.

Eventually I get to the hospital for an update on his condition. After some translations I understand that he has multiple fractured ribs and collarbone but no head, spinal or life-threatening injuries. Thanks goodness for good riding gear.

Our trip log for Delhi to Devprayag, a journey of about 288 kilometers, and riding for 7.5 hours (Our numbers are proximately as we stopped here and there to rest and eat and went a few times)

The biggest advice we got was, try to be at the Nizamuddin Bridge over the Yamuna River as early in the morning as possible. This will ensure that you avoid traffic at cities along the way, namely Modinager, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Khatauli and Roorkee.

We first arrived at Ghaziabad (Dabur Chowk), after that we encountered a T-junction, the kilometer counter stands at this point a 5.8 kilometers, and we turn right. Left goes to Sharharda. Which is also an interested destination, but that we would probably explore another time.