September 8: Leaving Cochin

Ok, I have so many holes to fill in this log still -- there are many essays on my palm pilot that will be uploaded here in the next couple days, so do check back. In the meantime, I am leaving Cochin today -- alone for the first time -- on a train. I had to stay an extra day, after the MF group left, just due to train ticket logistics, so I found myself a lovely hotel right on the water and spent the night in a cottage overlooking the sea. But I'm checking out now, and it's off to the station -- Junction station, as it happens, this time I am sure I have the right one.

I arrive in Goa at 3:45 AM and do not yet have a place to stay there, so I am relying on the 24-hour information desk my book insists is in the train station, and the fact that it is out of season. I figure one night in whatever I can find, and then I go find the prettiest beach in the whole world and stay there for a few days. . .