After some dinner and a long night’s sleep, I was finally able to shake the dirtiness from yesterday’s train. It was the type of grunge that seemed to saturate my skin… The shower I took the night before removed the dirt, but I still felt grimy as I laid down for bed. That train ride [...]

I do have to say, the morning train is always a bit of a struggle to get up for. Often times it is super early, leaving at 6 or earlier, and you need to be there about 30 minutes early to get your seat and stash your luggage. This morning was no different. The alarm [...]

The act of getting a ticket to Jaipur with 100 other Indian people in a 20×20 foot area was, for lack of a better word, challenging. The first problem was that the idea of a queue doesn’t seem to exist in the local Indian dictionary. People were cutting in line left and right, and people [...]

After we felt like we’d spent sufficient time basking in the glory and marinating in the awesomeness of the magnificent Taj Mahal, we thought we should also take a gander at the Agra Fort. So we had a quick lunch and a quick rest, then headed on by foot. It was a pleasant walk, and [...]

Since the bday plan to visit the Taj hadn’t quite gone as planned, it seemed silly to get up in the dark to get to the Taj by sunrise, then not come back til it was dark again (to see it at sunset – and make the most of our exorbitant (by Indian admission fees) [...]