Ok, now that I have free time and kitchen duties (yuck), I feel like I should use it to explore travel possibilities. The world is my oyster, not considering money. That's the thing about the greenback, if you're making it you've got no time to spend it and if you don't make it, you have no chance to spend it. You're doomed either way. So might as well fritter away a few more to make ourselves happy. I'm only slightly kidding, I've saved up cash enough to float me for a few months and I'm living in my parents house, rent free, food free. Plus I'm single with no kids or loans. That was some critical on ground planning I've done before taking the plunge off the cliff. Its harder to fly when your wings aren't tied by iron chains.
Foreign travel is out, that's way too expensive from India. Even within India, the topnotch travel destinations like Kashmir, Kerala, Uttarakhand are basically like paying for a foreign trip without a stamp on your passport. So I'm constrained to find a place where I can sightsee, forget that I haven't taken a holiday in like 3 years and just live again. I hit upon the solution. Voila, pick a place where you can go by train only. Find a budget hotel and eat cheap. Common sense right?
Sure, except I have relished the fruits of hard corporate labour in the form of flights, 4 star hotels, chauffeured cars and made to order meals, all expenses paid for five years. No dripping perspiration, no smelly odours, no questionable strangers looking askance at your luggage and most certainly no jostling, fighting or bargaining. I've bitten off quite a mouthful when you consider it that way but my work free mind reminds me that its the price of giving up corporate salaries. So I'm no longer a coddled corporate darling, I'm just the average unemployed, struggling to travel on a budget.
Next up, I'll tell you how the smells and sounds are a lot more different when your mind is open and empty!
Foreign travel is out, that's way too expensive from India. Even within India, the topnotch travel destinations like Kashmir, Kerala, Uttarakhand are basically like paying for a foreign trip without a stamp on your passport. So I'm constrained to find a place where I can sightsee, forget that I haven't taken a holiday in like 3 years and just live again. I hit upon the solution. Voila, pick a place where you can go by train only. Find a budget hotel and eat cheap. Common sense right?
Sure, except I have relished the fruits of hard corporate labour in the form of flights, 4 star hotels, chauffeured cars and made to order meals, all expenses paid for five years. No dripping perspiration, no smelly odours, no questionable strangers looking askance at your luggage and most certainly no jostling, fighting or bargaining. I've bitten off quite a mouthful when you consider it that way but my work free mind reminds me that its the price of giving up corporate salaries. So I'm no longer a coddled corporate darling, I'm just the average unemployed, struggling to travel on a budget.
Next up, I'll tell you how the smells and sounds are a lot more different when your mind is open and empty!