Let my adventures begin!

A lot of people asked me whether I was nervous about going to Bhutan. I never really worried about going alone as I knew from the last time I visited that that culture is very enticing to me and I don’t tend to wafer and doubt if I have set a goal and have a vision for what my next project should be. I just feel I need to do this and make the best out of it. But the closer the date of departure came the less real it seemed that I was really going so soon and I had so much to do before I went that my mind was very preoccupied with just getting every thing done. I was like in a timeless bubble. 
The first moment I truly realised that I was really going now and that this adventure was truly happening and not just a dream was when I entered the airplane at 4:40 pm on Friday the 25th of July 2025.
Then the long journey to Bhutan began.  The only thing that made me slightly nervous was that I hadn’t been able to declare my extra suitcase of 30 kg for the flight from Delhi in India to Paro in Bhutan. For the flight from Zürich to Delhi via Doha I was able to purchase a second piece of luggage directly while buying the ticket.  On the internet I had read somewhere that it is possible to add an extra suitcase on Drukair (one of two airlines that fly to Bhutan) but with a maximum weight of 20 kg! The thing also was that in Delhi I had less than 4 hours to change flight and I had to first go through immigration into India and get the visa even though I only was there for transition to Paro and get my suitcase and then go to checkin again with all the stuff and finally go back in through  security again. Therefore it wasn’t much time especially for any potential difficulties with sorting out the second suitcase. 
When I finally made it  to the Drukair Check-in at the Delhi Airport I just asked the first staff member I saw what I should do if I had extra luggage. He looked at me a bit sceptical and thought for a while and then said that it would be best to upgrade to business then I would have two free pieces of luggage. When I asked how much that would be said something with some 100 000 which was Rupee or Ngultrum (Indian and Bhutanese currency) I guessed, which I had no Idea how much that was in USD. I was so tired and that man tried to help but had such an accent I really didn’t understand what he said even after asking a couple of times. He finally realised that I was sceptical and that we didn’t really understand each other. So, he took me to the economy checkin desk and referred me to the lady there. When I started checkin I asked that lady how much it would be to do overweight of 30 kg. I was very relieved when she told me that I could add the extra luggage and just had to pay extra for the extra kilos. When I asked her how much that was in USD she tipped it into the calculator and showed me that it was just short of 130 USD. I wouldn’t have known what I would have done if I had to leave one suitcase there or take out more than 10 kg. At that time I was already so tired from the traveling as it was already nearly 2 o’clock in the morning and my brain wasn’t working properly any more.