In a nutshell

There was one singular experience on our trip that I keep recalling on a near-daily basis. On the train from Jaisalmer to Delhi, Andy and I purchased our dinner from the attendant. It was a box containing roti (bread), rice, dal (lentils), mutter (peas) and paneer (cheese). Simple but quite tasty. We had the box and it's contents to deal with once we finished. I remembered seeing a garbage sign at the end of our train car so I took our containers in that direction. I realized once I got to the end of the car that I had been mistaken and that the garbage container was at the other end of our train car. The train doors were open at this end and the attendant was standing in front of them because we had just pulled away from a station. He smiled to me and made a motion for me to toss my garbage out the open doors. I smiled back and said, "No, it's alright. I can walk this to the other end and throw it away." He made the motion out the doors again and I said "No really, it's alright. I just can't litter so I'm going..." He took the garbage from my hand and threw it out the open doors. He smiled once more and brushed his hands together as if to say "that takes care of that!" I was dumbfounded. I was going to walk the 30 feet to the garbage can and think very little of it and he thought that was ridiculous and a much better option was to throw the cardboard and plastic out onto the tracks. Out of sight, out of mind. Done. Sheesh.

During our three week tour Andy came up with several new slogans for the Indian Tourism Bureau whose current slogan is: Incredible !ndia (yes, with an exclamation point!).
Our favorites are:

• Accidental India
• Roll the Dice with India
• India: A Real Piece of Work
• India: We Mean Well Enough
• India: Growing On You Since 1947
• Catch! India
• India: We're All Here (my personal favorite)

My only contribution was 

• India: You'll Be Thankful You Wore Closed-Toed Shoes

It's incredible here, to be certain, but let's call a spade a spade. It's time to have a more honest and straight-forward slogan so that people can have an inkling of what they might be stepping into (literally!) as they step off the plane here.