Our friend Genevieve (Gen) is visiting from Portland, Oregon, USA, for Christmas and the New Year. On Saturday the three of us headed south about 120 miles for our first visit to the Taj Mahal. We hired a driver from a travel agent since our driver Sonu is in Punjab for his cousin's wedding this weekend. It took 5 hours to travel 120 miles, because the roads are crazy! Well the roads are actually okay, but the drivers are crazy. As I have mentioned before, nobody drives inside their lane, so I am not sure why they paint lines in the roads. Instead of driving inside their lanes they use their horns constantly to announce their presence to each other. If you hear a horn on your right rear flank, you better not turn right quickly
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