I opted for train travel this time after a long period while coming back from delhi .And it was none other than Karnataka Express as it take kind of nights a 1 day .
Earlier the plan was that I will come with my family but due to some change in plan it was just me, and I really enjoyed these ~40 Hrs spent.
I simple love traveling by train ; the only thing that stops me is the time .
As I was without my family I had all the time to spend it as I wanted! which could have been difficult with my kids.
Day 1
We hired an driver to reach New Delhi railway station from sonipat.Its ~60 Km from my hometown .
We took my brother in laws car but opted for driver as he is famous for make things late all the time he drives .
We reached station some 1:15 hrs before schedule and soon I asked him to leave and I was all alone .
The train started some 30 minutes late, quite acceptable by Indian terms
So after the train started I had the dinner packed by my mother. Mothers will never stop caring for there kids let them be young or grown ups.I told her very firmly , pls don’t prepare any food for the way ,but she didn’t agree.
She had prepared palak parathas with tori ke sabji ,it was awesome ,she also packed some buttermilk for me.After having the food i tried to sleep but soon came the first stop @agra and came a couple with loads of luggage ,thus a prospect fight and that’s what it turned out to ,a verbal fight, as the guy started moving out the already placed luggage here and there to place his own, and to stop this stuff I played the mediator role to stop the dirty stuff and it worked as always.
I went for sleep around 1 AM my usual time ,but it never was sound sleep ,reason I could not figure out as it was convenient enough.
Day2
As I got countless wakeup throughout the night so I decided to finally wakeup around 6 thus After many many days I GOT THE opportunity of watching the sunrise ,I captured it too with my Nokia N72.
I am an foodie ,love eating and keeeping that spirit I tried wada @Bhopal station in the morning ,but I was wondering that the particular shop I got wada from only had south Indian food ..like dosa ,ildi wada.As Bhopal is in central India ,but anyways I enjoyed the wada,as I am fan of south Indian food.Then it was followed by the Bread with vegitable cutlet been served by the pantry guys in the train.
After food it was reading time then ,I got a Chetan BHagat book(3 mistake ….) from New delhi station .although I am not a great fan of chetan bhagat style of writing ,but I found this book appropriate to complete during my ~40 hrs journey .
My earlier experience with his book(5 point someone ) was not great …as I never found it worth ready after couple of chapters as I found it was not as interesting as my own collage life.
In the evening I had the pleasure of meeting an interesting person. A polite ,educated ,well spoken guy was discussing something with person sitting next to me and listening to them, I interrupted and participated with them and within few minutes I come to conclusion that he had some loose screws .He was so confused that he was not even aware what bogie he was into. That’s the fun of traveling on the train ,which you normally don’t get in any other medium of travel ,as you prone to meet many different and unique cases.
Day 3
Again it was tough for me to get the sound sleep I expected, and I was awake at around 8 AM, this day was more of an wait for reaching Bangalore ,which I stared almost at 11 although the expected time to reach Bangalore was 1.40 .
Meantime I also completed my first Chetan Bhagat book ,which I would have never done if I had other ways to pastime .
After completing reading his book I feel that I too can write books ,as its not too tough to write such books.
Few hours before reaching Bangalore came some station named Sri Sai XXXXXXXXX ,not sure about the complete name, ane the gentleman I was talking about I met the day before left the train and then I understood the reason for his behavior .I have many such cases who spoil there carrier for such things .In search for unknown things they loose focus from the real things.
Karnataka Express halts at three stations of Bangalore ,yehlanka been the first one then Cant and finally city .In train I came to know that Cant will be the nearest one for me as I stay near in C V Raman nagar.But I was lucky enough as the train stopped for couple of minutes at some small station which was just 3 Km away from my flat and I grabbed the opportunity ,I offered the same to one other train mate who refused saying he has family even though I also extended my help in that too ,and thus the 40 hrs of wonderful journey came to an abrupt end.
