Hampi was our last stop in South India. By rickshaw, bus, and then train, we traveled some 1,200 miles over 3 days to Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, the desert state in Northern India. The 37-hour train journey started badly: uncomfortable, cramped, cold, and hungry, surrounded by snoring men, and already sleep-deprived. But things always work out: within two hours, we had a comfortable private sleeper berth to ourselves; we ate abundant delicious food from the enterprising station vendors (such as homemade yogurt in a little clay pot); and the slow rocking induced probably the best sleep mom had in India. I sat in the open doorway and watched miles of country and city go by, and when I saw camels pulling loads of bricks hay auto parts alongside the auto-rickshaws on the highways, I figured we were
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