Travel

I had just got off the bus That morning - after a scintillating run in a Kallada G4 Ishift Volvo B9R. To top it, I reached office later than usual. Already I was sitting in front of my computer browsing on RedBus! That I found SRS and some others had tickets for the next day to night Ernakulam. Another trip? Yes! I was booking another trip to Kerala That very weekend! I initially thought of calling my contacts for seats - but then thought of trying something different this time. Headed straight to the SRS Travels website and found some 6 vacant seats in Their B9R to Ernakulam (Thiruvalla bus) the next night. The only window seats were in the first row - without much rethinking, I booked seat # 2 - first row, left side window seat. The system Showed it was a 44 seater bus - I thought it would be a new bus, since SRS 'old B9Rs were 49 seaters. I was excited about my first journey by SRS - but Was that really worth the excitement?

November 15, 2015:

In my office, it is almost fixed That there would be meeting at evening on the days That I have to travel. This day was no different - but thankfully, the meeting got over quite early. I left office on time, and made it to home by around 6.30pm. My brother dropped me near SRS office in Madiwala around 2100hrs. I Showed my ticket the office - the guy at the counter replied, "Please sit down sir." First impression - excellent!

I went out to meet some people around Madiwala, And Also met one busfan as well. I've spoke this person quite a lot of times, but never had the fortune to meet him - it was a nice time meeting you Rejoy! I went around meeting my contact at G4 - he was furious on hearing That I was traveling by SRS That Night. He even Offered a ticket to Ernakulam in G4's Kottayam bus - I politely declined. I headed back to the SRS office at 2140hrs - the bus was scheduled at 2145hrs. I Decided to check out the office - it is a fairly big office - no fixed furniture was present, but a lot of plastic chairs were strewn around. There was one fairly clean toilet as well. They were announcing buses over a PA system. The seats were full, and I Decided to stand on the road. There was a steady stream of Kerala bound buses at that time - the petrol pump outside Friend's travels was bustling with activity all the time.