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  Crazy; seriously?; ridiculous.  come one, who travels by train for 30 hrs for fun?     These were the reactions when we disclosed the plan to family and friends.     I had to visit my home town Tenali from Delhi on personal work & decided to go by train this time. It takes 30 hrs for the direct train GT express and only 2 hrs by a flight, But where is the fun in flying.   In my childhood train was the only option to travel to my home town during summer holidays.. but this time it was by choice, Not by compulsion   My cousin joined me for the journey. He flew from Bangalore to Delhi just for the train journey with me and flew back to Bangalore from Tenali. Yes you read it right. We are that crazy about train travel .     If you know me, this is not the craziest thing we have done. We also drove down by car   all the 2000km more than once; also attempted end-to-end ride on India’s longest train journey.   The start - Day 1 - 29th April 2023   At 3 pm we were at the New