east coast express

I was in Hyderabad for about a week and a half for work and just got back.  I went by train, which took about 30 hours one way.  Yep, that’s right, 30 hours.  Some feelings about this:

• Being on a train for that long kind of feels like purgatory.
• Afterwards, you feel like you’ve lost a day of your life.  Not that you've wasted a day, but more like that it never happened.
• I accumulate more morning eye crust when traveling by train than in any other scenario.  I’m not sure why this is, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the lack of circulation and the perpetually running air conditioning in 3AC train compartments.
• I really like the smell of samosas wafting through a 3AC train compartment’s re-circulated air.