When I used to go to Gandhinagar from Vadodara on official trips, I would see the sign boards mentioning - "New Delhi - 980 kms". My obsession for long drives on motorcycle made me wish a bike to appear below me out of thin air and go for a long drive. I didn't own one till I got married (No, I did not received it as a marriage gift. I bought the motorcycle with my own money).
Now that I had a motorcycle, I had a wife too! I could not go on long trips, even to Ahmedabad, which is about 130 kms because I had to take her if I go and she would start complaining about pain and uneasiness in about 15 kms and would ask to turn back. I said to her, "I will go on a really long trip when you go to your 'mayka'. (This was one of the reasons I was happy to send her to her 'mayka'.)
The day when she was to go to Mumbai (from where she would go to her mothers place), I had an official trip to Gandhinagar. The sign board urged me again and this time I listened to it.
