Jeff, posing with two new friends outside of a tomb on the way to Agra from Delhi. We arrived in Delhi after taking a 13 hour overnight train from Bikaner. It was rough. They were all sold out of first class tix, so we got second class sleeper tickets. There were people everywhere...sitting many to a "bed," and an unfortunate number were sleeping on the floor outside of the toilet in standing water. My unclean bunk was looking pretty good in comparison, after I came back from my trip to the toilet. After nearly being crushed trying to exit the train (we should have followed the crowd and passed our bags out the train windows rather than trying to move counter to the flow of human traffic coming on to the train as we tried to get off with our backpacks), we had a number of station mishaps, couldn't get a train ticket to Agra, and ended up hiring a driver for an outrageous fee to take us to Agra and back to see the Taj Mahal. Never was there more pressure on a monument to impress us, after that saga!
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