Highway travels - The nightmares!!

Thanks to the bad weather and electricity board! i had no option but to write a blog. It has
been a couple of weeks that i wanted to write something on this topic but always found one
or the other so called 'Good' reasons to postpone it! Here i get a chance now :)


I always opt for private omni bus of class semi-sleeper for commuting to/from my home town... the only reason for that is leg space! Oflate, long distance travel have been a adventure for me. Something or the other exciting stuff happens during the travel.

This day was not an exception, it was around 1 am and bus was somewhere near salem. I don't
get sleep that easily during travel but that day i fell asleep cajoled by the hot tiresome day at home... that is when i heard a shattering sound of glass, it took few seconds for me to realise what has happened. Thank god it was nothing fatal, the front glass of the bus bursted into pieces owing to pressure of high speed wind hitting the glass of the cruising bus leaving driver bleeding! what else had to wait for alternate driver/bus in the process spent arond 2 hrs on the highway...


A month before that! Aah!! this was the worst bus travel i ever made... It was some holiday season and hence could not get tickets for night bus and had to opt for day time travel in a
volvo, worst part is we had booked first two seats... In a volvo, driver's seating position is such that the front row is completely open for a panaromic view, believe it, the view which u get from that isn't that great!!


Call it the dexterity of the drivers or the quality of the buses to cut through the wind,you will get to see all vehicles almost smashing into you, it was almost like playing NFS!! The sixth sense of mine and my frnds whom i travelled with that day constantly pricked us...we said to each other "This beggar (the only decent word that we could get to call the driver ;( ) is going to park (hit) somewhere ", after couple of close encounters we were all set to reach b'lore... guess what the bus was sucessfully parked after hitting a private carrier!!


When used to hear abot or see some accidents, always thought its bad luck on the driver/passengers part but after having so many close shaves it is really hurting that how careless these drivers are! Having said that, it is not only the drivers whom are to be blamed it is the responsibility of the transport company to take care that the timings are not tight and the drivers are given good rest... and ofcourse the condition of the highways which are worsening day by day.

Well! we are left with less options... if something is to happen it will definetely happen! I have to book tickets for my next trip now ;)