Honeymoon Travails...Part 1

Its been a long vacation…
Its been almost more than six months since I wrote…Its been too long since I introspected, is it?
Ah…marriage takes away your space for introspection you may say?
I doubt that as I sit by the window of the Holiday Inn watching the snowing Boston street on a lazy Friday noon…
Its something about the rain or the snow that tends to tickle your imagination, expand the dimension of time and pull you back to words.. Or is it effect of the English weather subconsciously ingrained in your head by those English lessons in the Indian classrooms that opened your doors to the wordy world ??
Hmm…later..
Lets get back to the topic…
Honeymoon can be a very good way of knowing your partner well as these are the first few days and for some, probably the last few when you actually get to spend some quality time together, alone. So, a lot of time and effort should be put in to the actual planning which needs to be done months in advance. I started planning the same around three months in advance and decided to go to North East basing it on the following considerations and logical assumptions(engineering mind at work!!!)..
-She probably wont like to go to south..The only places worth visiting in south are munaar, coorg, ooty…she being a southie herself may have already covered a few of these..I am neutral here..
-She wont like the sea.. Its June man…Its humid there…I am neutral here..
-She wont like to go for a videshi honeymoon…You go out of the country you will spend more time knowing about the country and their culture rather than your partner..Moreover, she wont like it if her husband ends up bankrupt after the whole episode..she will prefer security.. I am neutral…
-She probably wont like to go to Shimla and Manali… Everyone goes there..Doesnt suit my intellectual capability(Remember, Iam an MBA..innovation & imagination, you know!)…Although, I was neutral, as always…
So, considering all the above considerations, I, no..no(how dare I make decisions alone), we decided to go to North East and planned ten days around Darjeeling, Peling and Gangtok..
I however had a close friend from the college days who helped us with the planning and logistics…Both of us had a great time there although we had our own bit of adventure (getting caught in the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha bandh, driving with almost zero visibility in a dark stormy lonely night, sleeping at a petrol pump surrounded by dense dark forests of the Sikkim hills etc,etc).
Whereas Darjeeling is beautiful, crowded and a highly commercialised hill station, you will count the number of people you come across in the silent, serene hills of Peling.. Gangtok is just the perfect mix of both of the above…
Ah..when will it stop snowing??More, on how we planned around the ten days there, in the next post…Something across the road just fails to get off my mind..Need to check that out!!!