SO(u)LO Trip
I never understood the hype or the joy of a solo trip before, but as they say. you can't love the meat you never tasted. So this time I had the opportunity to explore and take a solo trip. Well, you may be wondering why it is such a big deal, for a person who has never lived alone in her entire life(1/3 of a presumable lifetime), IT IS! I was anxious picking the place, overcautious about the weather, and super scared about the rides alone to all the sites I wanted to see. Narrowed down to a comfortable area of parwanoo, a small jumbled up piece next to the Chandigarh and Tricity area. Booked everything on my own from the train tickets, breakfast on the train, hotel(safest ones), activities(which had multiple minor glitches), catching up with old friends in Chandigarh, all down to the greatest details. Fantasizing about the weather, relying on the weather updates(which completely ditched at the last moment with a heat wave), it turned out to be super! I had never experienced fear,...