Get me out of Goa!

The monsoon has finally really caught up with us. After showing up at the train station last night at 10pm to find out that our 16 hour train to Kerala was canceled, and wouldn’t be running again for at least another three days from now, we’ve spent the last 12 hours figuring out a way to get the hell out of Goa. We showed up at the internet café this morning at 9 only to have the shop not open until 12 to look at flights on-line. Of course, none of them left before 3 so we headed to the bus station to be told that we’d have to take a 14 hour bus to Bangalore at 6pm, which meant another day of waiting in Goa – No Thanks!. We decided to try our luck at the airport and vowed on our way there that we would only leave by plane. We arrived at the airport to be told by Jet Airways that there not taking anymore new reservations – even to Bangalore – which is retarded since everyone is trying to get to Bombay and they’re almost the opposite direction. I think this is also why people tell you to take at least a month to travel through India, bc these delays seriously impact our week long vacation. Oh well, Steph and I have remained optimistic, and smiled most of our way through this, recognizing that if we were a couple, we’d probably be yelling at each other by now. Again we’re just lucky that we never had any real plans to go through Bombay because they’re still not flying in there today – which means there’s been a backup for about five days. It looks like our dreams of Kerela backwaters and ayurvedic massages are over though as we’ve run out of time to get there, and so have decided to head to Mysore outside of Bangalore instead.