April 20th | Our first destination

The train was an hour late, but the linen handlers did not take that into consideration! They woke us up at 4:30AM and made us give them the linen in time for them to wind up their chores well in time which kept us unnecessarily awake, stand in a mile long queue outside the loo and wait aimlessly hoping the destination will be here any moment.

Finally, when we reached Guwahati, we got off the train and rushed to un-load the bike, to our shock, we could not find the bike in any of the parcel compartments, we were (especially Suzy, its his bike afterall) in panic, thinking of all the possible circumstances, could the bike have been mistakenly offloaded at the wrong station, did they drop it at Secundrabad itself and all other such crazy scenarios. Finally, we figured that there was still one campartment to be opened and when they opened that, we found the bike there. Rushed to the parcel handlers and got the gate pass and had the bike out of the platform soon.

We were hoping minimum (if possible NO) damage; inspecting the bike, we realized that they had broken the back rest, but that was the least damage, we saw bikes that were worse off.
Zoro, picked us upand brought us to the place where we are to stay tonight. Anoop and Dhruv will be here by the evening.

Tonight will again be a good night ;)

Moral: Don’t get up immediately when the rialway guys wake you up, they have selfish motives, take your time and find out the train time status the night before. Keep copies of the RC Papers to get the gate pass, and get the gate pass while the bike is getting unloaded off the train. If someone’s recieving you at the station, ask them to carry a bottle of petrol because your bike will be bone dry by the time to get it out.