Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The road to Darjeeling!
The road to Darjeeling was treturous at best. To Mughal Sirghre was a nice tut tut through so much traffic i could die. Then i get there thank god i'm always scared of getting to the train station and missing my train. That sure was not the case this time as i looked the train was going to be a few hours late. Whatever i waited nine hours in the agra train station i can wait a few hours here. So i start walking mainly to look for someone who can tell me the time when i ran into some nice brits, "Yea the train is actually going to be twelve hours late" they said and i say " that's just great there is no way i'm staying in the train station for that long, Fuck there are a lot of mosquitos out." so we go to to some random hotel to wait for out train. A few hours later we decide it would be a good idea to go back and make sure the train was coming in at that time. LUcky us its going to be 22 hours late oh my hell what could be keeping the train. Apparently all the trains were delaying because of the for/smog covering Delhi which they all apparently go through. So we wait, sleep get up go to the train station the train is delayed two more hours we sit and have some coffee and create quite the scene as spectaters stop dead in their tracks to look at us. One guy even come into the coffee shop and sat at the table behind ours. Shit there is a fire at the train station i bet it's our train. Yea a real big fire the trees around it caught fire. you know why so many people die in fires because people go real close to look at it then run rampidly when it gets out of control. Our train comes. we are so happy it's a miracle; someone has taken my seat so i sleep on top of my luggage. i swear the transportation in india is a trial in hell. we get to new jalgaipurei then take a jeep up to Darjeeling. thats 24 hours to wait for the train 13 on the train and 8 in the jeep aparently the main road is closed. i look like i haven't slept in a week. so i get here say goodbye to brits get my room get insanly lost at night looking for fucking goodricks house of tea. i want tea damnit, i traveld through insanity just to get some god damn good tea. so i find a cool place have some weird roll i swear is made with rum icing and finally tea, it was good. Next day i realize that's its freaking cold here i'm only staying two nights hopefully i would really not like to get a cold or sicker. I finally found Goodricks and have tea until i burst and bought a cool mandala pendant. it looks cheap but it looks better that way. Hopefully tomorrow i will get on toy train to New jalgapurie then to calcutta then to chennai/madras. hopefully
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Sounds like traveling in India is difficult at best. I hope you find some way to travel without this hassle...but then again, maybe that's how things always are. Have fun and keep writing on your blog. I will try to contact Shannon for you.
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