Have A Safe Journey!

The idea of travel becomes so much exciting for those who travel for the first time but those who are regular travelers it is extremely mundane and boring. They feel it is so casual and never pay attention to any details. 
Now imagine you have to travel to an unknown place then it would make you so breathlessly particular. You want to know what you have to do the moment you are out of the railway station or airport. You look around for the first place which can put your mind at rest. Maybe it's the person carrying your placard or your relative or acquaintance in the crowd. Otherwise you have done your google search or looked up in Tripadvisor and realized the topography of that place. You look around with so much suspicion that you believe everyone is out to rip you off. The taxi or autorickshaw or the tout who wants you to sit in his vehicle for half the rate. You smell the rat there itself. 
Now comes the part of searching for the right person to guide you. You approach the nearest tourist counter or policeman and are shocked to know that they haven't heard of your final destination. After a lot of palpitating monuments you realize that guy is saying something which sounds Greek version of your destination. You heave a sigh of relief that there is finally someone who can relate to you. 
Till you haven't reached your hotel or relatives place you are palpitating and running high fever. Looking at the running meter in the auto or cab or wondering when your destination will come in the bus. The journey seems endless. Maybe the train or air travel was faster and fixed destination but not your local one. 
Exhausted with the troublesome local travel episode you relax in your room. Hoping that you never have to travel to such lousy destinations ever. You just need a shoulder to cry on or nurse a drink. You call up your friend, wife or your contact and pour it out. 
I am sure you too have experienced such and other harrowing experiences in your travel to unknown places. Share it with us. Take care. Have a safe journey! 

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Anonymous said…
well.. I have always loved being to places for the first time specifically .. the way the cabbie would try fooling you .. the way the you need to bargain with tariff of rooms of decent hotels .. the way the city reacts .. some knowing you as strangers .. and places where you can behave as regulars !! :)
Its thrilling but limited to the nation !! I have never been out of the country hence it scares me a bit to even think about getting down in a city without knowing anyone , at least a placard guy !
July 12, 2013 at 6:24 AM
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