Travel scribbles

Prologue: It's September-end, 2020 and the world has been brought to its knees by covid-19 and that too for some time now. The world is shrouded in gloom, plans have flopped and careers have been jeopardized. To be honest, it shook everyone out of their bubble, their "5 year plans". Covid is a relatively low risk disease and yet, it created a panic that has not been seen in the last 100 years (The world wars must have sucked more though I guess). A grim reminder that everything you have, can just simply vanish if it's the will of "nature". Covid took a lot from a lot of people. By comparison, I was relatively unscathed but not "completely" unscathed. It did make me drop my shoulders and embrace the new normal, Whatever the hell that means. I would dream every day about spending some time away from the god-awful media created news, the career fiasco, the chaos. So, I bided my time. As soon as the government indicated that the restrictions will be l