DAY TWELVE - Jan 8th - Jhansi to Agra

Today we are leaving for our next city on our journey, the city of Agra. This is where the Taj Mahal is and where we will be staying for 5 days and attending the district conference. The team is supposed to get up early to go visit a local monument but some of us decide to stay home as the long driving from yesterday was a bit much for us. Linda and Allan are troopers and head out to see the monument while I indulge in a few hours extra sleep!! Just after 1pm the team assembles out front my host families home and a large crowd of local rotaries arrive to say goodbye and see us off! After a lot of pictures and hugs we hit the road for Agra. The road to Agra is rough like many of the roads here, there is a lot of construction causing detours. We are now used to seeing the wildlife on the roadways here but this drive had us seeing something new! In a few areas of the highway there were men in loin clothes and some completely naked walking down the highway.. we all have a good giggle as we drive by! As the hours pass the team gets restless, we have been in the van for so many days traveling that we cant sleep anymore if we tried. Allan breaks outs another Kenny Rogers song and Betty Jo starts to sing a song of her own! The team has tried in the past and now to fill space with music but its funny we still cant find a song we all know!! It is getting dark and we finally arrive at our next town AGRA!! We will be all staying together here at the home of Rahul, the man we stayed with the first night we got here. He greets us at his home and introduces us to his family. Once we are all settled in he gives us an option of going to a dinner or staying in for the night. As a team we decide that it would be best to stay in and have a team meeting (something we have not be able to have yet). Rahul orders us Pizza and we all sit down to debrief about our trip! Today was a lot of travel and we are all tired so we get to bed early for a good nights rest.