Airport Blues....

Me and wifey are planning a vacation after a long long time. Its not as if we are too busy to plan a vacation, but basically both are us have been out of step with each other. When she could get off from her company, I couldn't and vice versa. Also, we are generally tight on cash, so many a time, a thought of a vacation is shot down because of tight pockets. Also, our vacation plans get complicated because she wants to meet her family every time she can take an off, I am less interested. Not that I don't enjoy it with her family, I have been much of an explorer and hence going to the same place everytime is not so exciting.

Anyhow, me and wifey are finally planning a vacation, assembled a new and novel destination, got the sign offs from our respective managers and hoping to head out. The vacation has flights, train journeys, buses, metro trains and even a boat (if we manage to pull it off), but the most terrifying part for me seems to be getting to Bangalore International Airport.

I have used it once while returning from a recent trip to the Bay Area and I didn't find it too inconvenient, but then the company sent a car to pick me up, on a Thursday night, and the excitement of meeting family after 8 weeks might have biased my view to commuting from the airport.

This time, we are going to be heading out on a Friday evening, after office and possibly having 5 days of heavy work behind us and my guess is that it could be a different ball game. The connectivity is quite poor with us being thrown at the mercy of some cabs. The unfortunate part is that when I last tried to book a Meru cab service for the next morning for a cousin of mine, they declined saying all their cabs are booked.

So, we are left completely at the mercy of finding anything and everything to reach the God forsaken place.

Interestingly, I have been to a lot of airports including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Port Blair, Madurai, Pune, Hamburg, SFO, Singapore and so on and my worst three airport commute experiences have been Mumbai, Bangalore, Bangalore. God saves us.

Will be posting next with some photos once my vacation gets underway.

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