Pedaling Through Life: A Father–Son Ashtavinayak Cycling Pilgrimage by Sunil Khandbahale - HTML preview

Acknowledgment

We are deeply grateful to our family for their constant love and moral support, and especially to Dnyaneshwar (Appa), whose generous support and willingness to lend his own bicycle made this journey possible from the very first step. We are equally thankful to Shriram’s friends, Aayush, for kindly offering his bike for the trip, and Atharva, for lending essential cycling gear that ensured comfort and safety along the way.

Our heartfelt thanks also go to friends whose encouragement continued to lift our spirits, and to the many kind souls we met along the road who made this pilgrimage richer than we ever imagined. A warm thank you to the trustees and managers of all the temples for their hospitality and generosity, to the cycling community for guidance and companionship, and to the gift of technology that helped us stay connected throughout. We are also grateful to the government authorities for the well-maintained roads and infrastructure that enabled this spiritual and physical journey.

To everyone who became a part of this story … thank you for helping bring it to life.