Tiruvannamalai Beckons: From Fantasy to Reality
Chapter 4/17
This is the 4th chapter of a 17-chapter serialised travel story.
Previous Chapters:
And if you only need to refresh your memory, then here are the last few paragraphs from the previous post.
Life doesn’t always match up to our dreams, yet, twenty-two years after I had sowed the first seeds of travel, here I was on a solo 1000-KM drive from Pune to Tiruvannamalai – a place I had longed to visit after reading Paul Brunton’s book: A Search in Secret India.
This was no small opportunity! It filled me with gratitude. The road, the hills, the trees, the sky... everything was laced with gratitude and joy.
From Fantasy to Reality
We drove on quietly. I was lost in thoughts, and my neighbour was tired after the night shift duty at the toll booth. He shut his eyes intermittently between yawns and groans. I was glad I gave him the ride. Night shifts can’t be easy for anyone.
“Hain bus station diste?” He asked, in Marathi, if I could see the bus station, pointing to some distant place on the left.
