Thrissur: Sixty-year-old EP Jose from Thrissur is getting set for a journey around the globe on his bike. He hopes to finish the journey in six to seven years.
Josetten, as he’s fondly known as by his mates, plans to cowl 192 international locations throughout his journey. Some parts of the journey, between international locations that aren’t linked by land or these having journey restrictions, will probably be lined by air or different technique of transport. The bike will probably be shipped to those international locations upfront. However Jose is planning to cowl roughly about three lakh kilometres on the KTM 390 Journey bike he had acquired not too long ago.
Jose who labored as a software program engineer within the US after finishing the engineering course on the Thrissur engineering school had earlier accomplished an all India journey on a Harley-Davidson bike in 2017. It took about 43 days to finish that just about 16,500km journey by means of all of the states and UTs in India. Jose stated he had not too long ago undertaken a ten,000km lengthy bike journey to Ladakh, Jaisalmer, Rann of Kutch and Porbandar for about 30 days.
Jose’s household continues to be settled within the US, whereas he had returned about 20 years in the past. “They’re properly settled there, and I’ve been with all of them alongside. I’ve instructed them that I need the subsequent 10 years for myself to pursue my pursuits,” he stated, persevering with, “I used to be truly planning to begin in 2019. However I had an assault of Cervical spondylosis, after which there was the Covid pandemic. So I needed to delay the journey. Now I must prolong the `depart’ from the household to fifteen years,” he stated.
Jose had additionally undergone bypass surgical procedure in 2016.
“I’m planning to rearrange a flag off the journey by the tip of February or first week of March. I used to be planning to journey the bike from right here to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Russia and Europe. I’ve to guide my bike, first to Europe, after the formal flag-off and fly up there to kick-start the bike journey from there. For the primary 9 months, I will probably be in Europe. However when the winter units in, I will probably be shifting to South America and can spend about six months there,” Jose stated.
Josetten, as he’s fondly known as by his mates, plans to cowl 192 international locations throughout his journey. Some parts of the journey, between international locations that aren’t linked by land or these having journey restrictions, will probably be lined by air or different technique of transport. The bike will probably be shipped to those international locations upfront. However Jose is planning to cowl roughly about three lakh kilometres on the KTM 390 Journey bike he had acquired not too long ago.
Jose who labored as a software program engineer within the US after finishing the engineering course on the Thrissur engineering school had earlier accomplished an all India journey on a Harley-Davidson bike in 2017. It took about 43 days to finish that just about 16,500km journey by means of all of the states and UTs in India. Jose stated he had not too long ago undertaken a ten,000km lengthy bike journey to Ladakh, Jaisalmer, Rann of Kutch and Porbandar for about 30 days.
Jose’s household continues to be settled within the US, whereas he had returned about 20 years in the past. “They’re properly settled there, and I’ve been with all of them alongside. I’ve instructed them that I need the subsequent 10 years for myself to pursue my pursuits,” he stated, persevering with, “I used to be truly planning to begin in 2019. However I had an assault of Cervical spondylosis, after which there was the Covid pandemic. So I needed to delay the journey. Now I must prolong the `depart’ from the household to fifteen years,” he stated.
Jose had additionally undergone bypass surgical procedure in 2016.
“I’m planning to rearrange a flag off the journey by the tip of February or first week of March. I used to be planning to journey the bike from right here to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Russia and Europe. I’ve to guide my bike, first to Europe, after the formal flag-off and fly up there to kick-start the bike journey from there. For the primary 9 months, I will probably be in Europe. However when the winter units in, I will probably be shifting to South America and can spend about six months there,” Jose stated.