After our lunch around 2 PM, the next two hours was chaotic. We were waiting for a miracle of tickets getting confirmed. The thoughts of Monday morning blues of office was coming to mind. Not sure what to do to return to Chennai, we discussed all possibilities except chartered flight...!
Finally, Vijaya told that staying back was also a good option, and after some thought I felt the same. We live in a artificial world, where we assume office problems, sky will fall and things will coming to a grinding halt if we were not in the planned place for sometime. The fact remains that nothing stops and work is as usual even in our absence.It takes sometime to digest this fact...!
By 3 PM, my sms to 139 with "PNR " confirmed that tickets were waitlisted...! Now, the risk having happened, we went on to contingency plans. We started roaming aroundRameswaram, this time for our travel plans. Many travel operators were point blank to tell, it is just impossible to get a train ticket or bus ticket on the day of travel. There are only two bus operators from Rameswaram to Chennai viz. Parveen Travels and Universel Travels.
After lots of deliberations we called Universel Travels for a ticket on next day evening. The bus leaves at 5 PM and reaches Chennai at 5 AM, almost like train travel time. This ticket was delivered to us at the hotel. Now, I made alternative arrangements at office and now started enjoying the plans of Ramanatha Swamy had for us.
The next day travel was the icing in the cake of our Kasi Yatra. Technically the yatra having come to a completion and only awaiting Samarathanai, the next day's visit was ''bonus' offered Ramanatha Swamy to us...! We called an auto driver whom's number we got during the first visit to Rameswaram, and fixed him for our visits for next day. After a good dinner, we went to sleep with the eagerness to have Darshan of Spadika Lingam at 4:30 AM next day morning...!
(To be continued...!)
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