diary of a traveler

        The anxiety is here, once again, of going alone, to an unknown place. In the cold winter night of December, I was waiting at the pick up point of my bus to Diu. As always I was much earlier than the departure time for the ambitious getaway break during Christmas weekend. Anyway It felt good to have a night out which is rare for me.         I guess the amount of coverage given to revenge travel this year stirred my subconscious & out of nowhere came an idea to book a short trip. Anyway there was no scope of going for more than 2-3 days remembering the past experience of going solo so I settled for a weekend getaway to Mumbai. And to add some zing to it, I booked a return flight. So here the idea was to add the thrill of my first flight in the weekend pleasure tour.         Sadly I cancelled the Mumbai tour when I realized that for 2 hours of air travel I would have to leave home 2 hours before departure time & th...