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1. A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not why ships are built for 2. It won't be easy, but it will surely be fun 3. Only one person is allowed to be cranky on a road trip. This time it's Ovee 4. My daughter would rather be a traveller; than a topper 5. Memories are the best gift you give a child 6. All adults are equal on a road trip 7. No shopping; only site-seeing 8. Never compare two road trips 9. Follow your instincts 10. Understand emergencies and return home

For some, fun begins when they hit the road, For a few, fun begins when they check-in to a resort. For us, fun begins when we start planning our trip. So, the last six months have been absolute 'fun'. Following is our itinerary and we have no choice but to stick by it, since we have done booking our hotels. We start on December 6, Saturday and return on December 20, exactly two weeks later. This is the final itinerary after four rough drafts. Initially, we were planning to go to Rann of Kutch before moving on to Rajasthan. But as we researched, we realised that the awesome place deserves a full-fledged trip, So that has been kept for some other time and that was our draft one.  Secondly, we were not sure about staying at Khimsar, because it is quite far off from the urban setting and did not know what we would do in an emergency. It was also because of the overpriced resort, the only one there. Now, if we had dropped Khimsar altogether, the distance from Jaisalmer ...

It has been three years that Tejas and I took an inter-state road trip to Leh. As we complete five years of marriage this month, we are set to take off another road trip next month. Driving our car. With Ovee. For 16 days. In Rajasthan. Just the three of us. It has been long due that we hit the road and we are as excited as we were before going to Leh. However, without hiding the truth, we are more skeptical this time about Ovee adjusting to this long journey. So trusting our six-months-long planning, our efforts to consciously push our travel excitement on Ovee and relying that we have passed on enough travel genes to her, we start our trip in three weeks. We have selected the places based on our interest and  Shivya Nath's blog . Having no interest in temples, following are the places we will be going to Udaipur Kumbhalgarh Bap village, Phalodi district  Jaisalmer Khimsar Jaipur Chittorgarh Watch this space for more details.