Fly-Away Day

4:30 Wake-up knock on the door from Agra hotel clerk
5:15 Raju waiting outside hotel for pre-dawn rickshaw ride across town to the Agra train station
6:15 6am commuter train to Delhi crawls out of the station
10:00 The hottest and most crowded train ride of our lives pulls into Delhi’s Nizamuddin Station
10:15 Catch a taxi minibus to international airport after some hilarious ‘negotiations’ with Delhi’s opportunistic cabbies
1:30 Board 1pm flight to Indian Ocean island of Mauritius
7:05 Land at Mauritius airport (1 time zone west)
8:20 Catch taxi for ride to Post Lafayette
9:30 Arrive at Le Maison D’ete beach bungalows – greeted by Marie-Michelle and her dog Texas
11:00 Crash to bed with the sound of waves breaking in the distance