Mum-Del, Del-Leh separately?

Bhaskar called some time back. He confirmed with apprehensions (argh) but is also coming up with an idea of breaking the journey into two parts -- do Mumbai-Delhi seperately and fly back to do Delhi-Leh - that way he'd get sufficient time to practice on the Bullet and we'd get sufficient time to give our full to Leh. At one point he said why don't we just go now - very tempting! Am checking for tickets on Yatra. I want to use the Labor Day time also. Let's see what happens but it's a reasonable thought to break the drive up to give more for the Himalayas.