Mangaluru :
After completing the solo golden quadrilateral nationwide ride, covering nearly 7,000km in 2014, Esha Gupta, 37, aka Lone Gal Traveller, from Bengaluru has set her eyes on another mighty trip in this year.This time, she will attempt at creating a new Guinness World Records (GWR) for the longest journey on a motorcycle in a single country by a female. Esha will start the tour of 17 states, crossng 110 townscities, in an equal number of ing 110 townscities, in an equal number of days on January 10. Her faithful companion of 2014, Mike – her Bajaj Avenger 220DTsi will again carry her desire and hunger and to prove a point that “India is not an unsafe country” for women or women travellers.
Esha says: “By doing a solo ride across the Golden Quadrilateral, touching four metropolitan cities, I wanted to send a message out that India is not unsafe country for women. This time around, I will visit smaller towns and cities to put across the same message that India is safe. I plan to ride 38,000+ km in 110 days.” Esha says she is not challenging miscreants with the ride. “It is just to remind people that we are concentrating so much on the negativity that we have forgotten the positivity and good people around us. My solo ride is meant to shift people’s focus towards positivity,” she says.
She started preparing for the record in September last year by contacting GWR.”They have certain stringent rules and regulations that I have to meet to get my name in the GWR, which includes daily log in entries of my ride from start to end time apart from proof that I have visited the cities,” says Esha.
Her ride position and route will be tracked by twin GPS provided by OSS Technologies, which will also provide her a safety net. “The twin GPS is to avoid any complications in case one of the units fails. I cannot take any chance,” she says.
The expenses towards this ride will be al most 10 times that of her 2014 one. “I still have not got sponsors. I hope to get help from philanthropists if sponsorship does not materialize,” she asserts.