I had thought of
Doing chadar trek or Base Camp (Solo)
Meet all my relatives, few whom I had not met for 20 years
Do smaller treks around Bangalore (weekend)
And then life happened.
I am happy that despite the various curve balls life has thrown or maybe imagined by me I could at least fulfill 1 of the 3.
Met my relatives, traveled by train - bus - rickshaw - metro whatever but just made it happen. It was not easy. I think I would have taken it after 10 years.
But it was liberating, I had got accustomed to flying the clinical, clean, non intrusive cocoon in which you just zone in like a robot and travel from Bangalore - Mumbai. Same Vango everytime. After a point you are just going thru the motion
Train / Bus - every time is different. You meet all kinds of people, get into various conversations, philosophy, share food to soap to weed. You name it. Yes, you have to be open to it.
But the best part is gazing at the railway track or the scenery from your seat - I can never get bored by it. I won’t be able to do much of that in my current travels, but then there are mountains and clouds to give me company.
Lets!
Chal Himachal.
