This morning we arrived at the Chennai Central station at 7:30am to start the search for information on the train and our reservations. As has happened every time, I was confirmed and Joy was number 1 on the Waitlist before the morning of the train when she is suddenly confirmed and allowed to share a compartment with me. Once again I did not have to leave her behind. We found the train and the usual "HA1" car for "first class air conditioned". Shortly the man with the computer print outs of the passengers and a glue pot comes along, splashes some of the glue on the side of the car and puts up the list of occupants. And there we were together in compartment "C". Each "HA1" car has two, 2 person compartments and one 4 person compartment. They try to assign couples to the 2 person compartments. Each compartment has an upper and lower berth.
So here we sit in air conditioned comfort watching the coast of the Bay of Bengal, with it's many rice paddies, fly by as we speed up the Coromandel Coast to Bhubaneswar and the Puri Beach Resort.
Jim
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