Konkan Railways : Journey to Heaven (Cont.)

Here are few more clicks which I have taken from the Train window only....

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Konkan Railways : Journey to Heaven

It’s monsoon time in India and I have a promises to keep.

Keeping up with my annual date with Konkan Railways for the third consecutive year, this year also I made the all famous Panvel-Madgaon Trip with Konkan Railways.

It all started on Friday night(and yes, only after having two boring meetings and a last minute checkin’s), I board a train to Kalyan . This route is far more than familiar to me to excite me but that can never take away the scenic beauty on this route. How I can forget the Arab couple who have flown down to Mumbai for a one day only to have a MUMBAI-PUNE-MUMBAI trip by train and experience the virgin beauty of SHAYADRI Range(I met them way back in 2007).

Anyhow I made it to Panvel  by 5:00 am, had a light breakfast and aboard the Janshatabdi Express to Madgaon. The moment train left the concrete jungle of Mumbai suburbs in peeped the natural, pure and untouched beauty to the Konkan, it felt like you have moved into heaven. Firstly I had plans to put all my experience into word but latter did I realized that my vocabulary is far too poor to pen down this enormously fulfilling, exceptionally thrilling and deeply pacifying trip.

So I decided to take shelter of the Photos I have taken(all on them are taken from train only). ENJOY!!!!

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I alighted the train at Thivim around and took a 3:00pm and took a heavy Konkani lunch(you can avail wide variety of veg. also in Konkan). My back train was at about 5:30 pm in the evening and it was bang on time. Not to miss here is that Konkan railways is a engineering miracle(I think I might need another blog space to discuss it).

The best part of this trip and for the first time in all my trip came soon after before the train was approaching SawantWadi. It was just a picture perfect scene to see the sun calling it a day behind the rain soaked green coated mountain ranges. As the day fell to its end, the scene grew far more heartthrob and  dearer to share them all on this blog J .

Finally, the trip ended on Sunday afternoon with another promise made to be back next year.


Read my other travel experiences like Dandeli Jungle Safari, Kundilika River-rafting, Bhimashankar Treking, Benaras:Journey Back into Ages,Konkan Railways

Why 'm I Here.....

Sometimes some conversations really get on your head, and how so ever may you try to forget them, they keep coming back to you.

I read the ‘Joining The Dots' by Steve Jobs, and since then, I am far more convinced and optimistic that everything happens for a reason,only that you can “connect” it really later in your life.

I remember this small tete-a-tete I once had a friend over coffee, “So what is the purpose of life, an IT job that pays well, a Maruti an year from now, an onsite trip two years hence, a Honda City 10 years from now, and if everything goes well, may be a Hummer, or a Mercedes Benz. “

So while I walk around the magniloquent corridors, a pause to think, what I am heading to, a 10-6 job, that pays well, but intellectually, the learning curve has a slope close to zero, may be I never crossed the threshold in the first place.

As I come back from work everyday, I am left exhausted, with my entire body drained out, till the next morning, as I leave for work, and lock my house. But somehow I have increasingly started to comfort myself, ”ok, not this evening, this one’s going to be the way, I want to mould it, but.. There is only “now”, and the “later”, never speaks for itself ”.So as I procrastinate, evenings after evenings, this dissatisfaction drenches me and I tend to question myself repeatedly, will I be where I want to , the helm of my career, when I grow 50? May be then I will forget what the first monsoon means, the parties on Fridays, may the board rooms will take over the goofy cubicle conversations, but if this be the life I want, and if I want it this bad, there is no way, I will not have it.

Think,Decide,Plan, and its already time to attack !