Day 594 - Down the coast

We managed this morning to jump on a local bus to the main train station in Mumbai where we found our train to take us all the way to Goa where we would meet our great friend Peter. The train was a 12 hour journey through lush green fields and over clean (!!) rivers (after we made it past the men coming to the side of the railway tracks for their morning "deposits"), and we managed to fill our time by eating delicious Indian snacks and drinking sugary chai.
At 6pm we jumped off the train in Pernem, a desolate station that had us wondering whether or not we should be getting off there. We wandered past the waiting tuktuks and taxis out to the street where we waited for over an hour for a public bus to take us the 20km to Arambol beach. It became more and more stressful as night became darker and more and more buses ignored our waving arms!

But our persistence paid off and by 8pm we were sitting in a restaurant next to Peter enjoying stories of his last 6 weeks in Thailand and Cambodia. It's awesome when we catch up with new made travel buddies, as often attempts to reconnect fail. We were so excited to be off the train and with Peter that we forgot about finding accommodation and sat down to a meal and beers, so at 10pm we set off wandering the streets looking for somewhere to stay. Eventually we scored ourselves a sweet bungalow 200m from the beach!

Adlibing it together again.