En Commute

Date-21/06/2019

8:30am

The thing occurred as always of which I was afraid of….I am already running late and just to make it worse, I need to get a haircut. I know this is a dumb thing to do before the morning departures but I need to get it done before leaving. I have informed my fellow travelers about this; but anyways I am done with my haircut now and its 10:30 and I am in the cab to take me to the bus stop. It’s a 15 min drive from here. We couldn’t find a suitable train timings for the journey so we decided to travel by a bus. My fellows are already waiting there.

Me- Hey!

Them- Aghhh! Not again, we decided to leave on your suitable time and you still late.

Me- I am sorry, I’ll explain it later but let’s get on the bus first and arrange our luggage.

Its 11:10 am by the time bus leaves for Chandigarh, our first stop for today from where we will change our bus for Solan. Now its 30 minutes into journey and I have my earphones on and looking through the window. I consider this as the best part of the journey, listening to your favorite music and viewing changing scenarios outside. It’s a non-stop ride to the Chandigarh bus stand and it will take around 2 hours or so to reach us there. It’s 2:30 pm and we are here in Chandigarh. We checked on our next bus and it was here for a stop for next 30 minutes. So we board our bigger bags in the bus and went to a nearby cafe, freshen up and ate a few sandwiches and fries. The best thing about travelling is exploring new places and trying out the food of different places. Although I have been to Chandigarh for so many times but with friends there’s always something new.

After 25 minutes we are back on bus and ready to move onto our next step of journey. Solan from here is 65 kilometers and will take around 3 hours. The bus journey starts to become hectic after sometime when you can’t move yourself much, I’ll suggest you to either go by a car or train when you have to cover long distances. After spending 3 hours on the curves, and going through some breathtaking views we are finally here- Solan!

The weather here is calm, cool breeze blowing. Its 6:20 in the evening and Solan has welcomed us with open arms and a pleasant atmosphere.

We booked a cab and went to our hotel. By 7:00 pm we have checked in our hotel room, got freshen up and laying down in our beds. The journey has started to show its effects on us, but our empty stomach won’t let us sleep. It’s 8 at night and instead of ordering the food from hotel, we managed to get out and try food at a local nearby place. Although, it’s hard to go out after such a hectic journey but I always try to see the night life of the cities.  We had some momos(Dumpling), spring rolls and buns, that was all for our dinner tonight.

It’s 10:00 at night and we are back in our rooms, tomorrow we have planned to spent a day here in Solan only, I am familiar with a few local places here so we are going to explore it tomorrow. This was much of our day today.

Chapter-3 unfolds on next Saturday, It will be more fun as i explore local areas.

Good bye, Thank you.