Background
One of my closest friend Umair told me about his plan of traveling Pakistan on bike he was inspired from Moin Khan (A different agenda), that time in 2012 we were students of BS Computer Science 3rd year in KU and we both had superpower 70cc, whenever I, Umair and some other friends sit together at football ground or DPA canteen (AD ki canteen, KUrians may know) with some other fictional ideas we always plan a Pak tour in minimum possible cost... and by the time we successfully drafted a plan Pak Tour in 5k :-p For bike tour we had to upgrade our bikes, this was not possible on 70cc, next year (last year of BS, 2013) Umair purchased Suzuki 150... after BS he started working as a BI Analyst and I as a Software Engineer, later he lost his interest because of several reasons .....
It was August 2014 when I read travelog of Sulaiman Zaffar bhai, about his bike trip to northern areas and decided to buy GS150 and visit Khunjerab on bike.
In October 2014 I received employee of the year award at workplace, I had two options company sponsored 7 days international trip to Turkey or cash, I choose cash, this cash and contribution from home was enough to buy new bike, finally on 22nd Jan 2015 I bought Suzuki GS150.
I searched Sulaiman bhai on Facebook, requested a meeting, we (Sulaiman bhai, me and my friends including Umair) met, had good discussion, enjoyed his travel memories, told him about our plan he appreciated, I found him a humble person.
In April 2015 Sulaiman bhai posted an event on fb, plan was to attend Chillum Joshi festival in Kelash Valley Chitral, traveling from Karachi to Chitral on bike from 8th of May to 22nd of May, after little discussion with Sulaiman bhai in next meeting I decided to join.
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coming up next: Preparations