So. I had been hoping to be writing this from Patna right now. I expected to be writing this from Patna right now. I had bought a train ticket to get me to Patna. In order to get to the train station I needed to take a jeep down to NJP station in Siliguri. I'd assumed this wouldn't be a problem as there are always jeeps ready to take backpackers down to the station. But, unknown to me, the day my train was leaving (7/5) there was a huge Gurkha rally in, oh the irony, Siliguri. All the jeeps, indeed all the vehicles, in town were now 80km away, where I needed to be, but wasn't. As I prepared to check out of my hotel the lady in charge was, in hindsight, understandably curious about where
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