I may have been too hard on India. As you know, it is such a huge and varied place that no generalization could be valid. We started in Delhi and traveled with a driver and guide to Agra (what else) for the Taj Mahal, a gritty trip with a lovely ending. Then we flew to Hyderabad for a World Congress of a tourism association. I was VP and editor of a tourism magazine at the time. How was Hyderabad? Unremarkable. No story in my magazine. I may have been unfair, but I felt it was better to say nothing. If I had seen some of the fantastic places I have read about subsequently, it would have had a different ending. When my wife and I talk about the trio, other than the Taj, it is all negative: About the smog, the traffic, the animals and their holy manure on the streets, the poverty, men urinating in public and the ruins of temples and ancient cities untended, enveloped in vegetation, with obstructed paths and “workers” sleeping in the shade of the ancient wall. The Congress itself was forgettable. (Whew!) Glad your daughter found an exception to my shortsighted view!