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I was drowning in the dilemma of 'should I or should I not?' while I was sitting under the shade of a tree in the vast barren Spiti valley and waiting to test my luck.

'Should I or Should I not?'

So here is how the story goes, it was 2 p.m. and I was sitting just outside Naco village with my backpack, besides the road that would have taken me to Kaza, had I not missed my 12:30 bus. Voila! I did it again and I couldn't believe my carelessness. I have an ever growing list of missed flights, trains and buses and I just added one more incident to the list. My mother would be so proud.

But this time around, I couldn’t wait for the next bus to come as that would happen the next day and who has time to waste? With so little time and so much of land to explore, I decided to try my luck at the controversial hitch-hiking.