When I set out for home on Tuesday, I knew it would be hard going. To start off, I didn't get an auto from M.G Road, I had to walk the whole 8 kms to Madivala to get to the bus towards home. After getting to Madivala, the buses were delayed by an hour. I waited in the rain not daring to go and grab food, because it was already 9 and my bus was for 8:45. It finally floated in at around 10:10 and continued to float into Hosur road. I stayed awake till we hit Coimbatore and then slept like a log (at least like a log that was putting up a fight at a saw mill ). It rained like anything till then - I have some vague memories of a clear window when I got to Valayar.
Woke up when I got nearer to Cochin and thankfully it was all warm and sunny there. I remembered seeing an elephant on the roadside near palaghat teak plantations.
The long and short of it, I got home, feverish and dirty but in one peice.
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