Guess who missed the train and did not miss to make a memorable journey?
All of us!
You know how sometimes there is really no reason on why something happens and how it happened? We realized at 10.30 am that our train is not really at 4.45 pm and it had already left the Jaipur station at 9.30 am. There was no way we could catch an express train at next station as we were already running late. The next train with sleeper coach available was 5 days later as it was festival season. A 1200km journey would be too much to take a bus. We were not in position to take a road trip after 8 days of already hectic travel (a few of us were, if not all) and flight only costed 52K. Well, we had another train to catch in Mumbai and it was not like we had all the time in the world – it was like we had and also did not have.
The next train to Jaipur was at 2.00 pm and we had to book general seats – THE only available option if we ever wanted to travel. We came to station and did (cheers to the long queue and stomach running rats). There was not even one leg space in general and we had to make around 20 hours journey. Of course we paid extra and moved to sleeper. With no surprise, the sleeper looked like general. Seven of us kept moving across bogies making sure to take seats which got empty and vacate when the seat holder came by (damn those luggage). There was a stop for every one hour-ish. Everything that could possibly happen, happened that night. That’s why the journey was beautiful. We all got around 4 hours of no disturbance sleep in the end when train was almost empty, at the end of journey, long past the midnight. We reached Mumbai with tired smiles.
Could it get any more amazing?
P.S. We were not supposed to share this with anyone!
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