Wrong keyboard and foggy head so will keep to bullet points.<\/p>\n
back and forth to get ticket but still waiting list 1-4.
\nclimbed balcony to escape hotel, still WL1-4
\nsaw chief reservation superintendant to get general ticket on 11:40 train
\nstuffy, hot, humid, reminded me of Romania train, so I started talking to locals. university students, no, working for Forever multilevel marketing for 2 years, no, just starting.
\ntaught me Hindi – e do chi cha pach.. talihad, chagalaga – all wrong by now, I’m sure.
\nBig crowd gathered around to watch.
\nKicked out of seat, stood up for 6 hours.
\nHari Krishna grinding chewing tobacco and lime.
\nRaining in vestibule.
\nInvited to sit down around dinner time with family including beautiful woman in blue \/ gold sari and henna hands\/feet (bride?) that stared at me but wouldn’t smile.
\nOrdered thali dinner and had to eat with hands – first time – that made woman laugh, holding sari in front of mouth.
\nStood up again. Invited to sit with family that would leave at midnight. Took their sleepers. Got up at 3am and off train at 4am. Into hotel at 5am in time for sunrise over Gange and a family swimming 20m downstream of a dead body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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