Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: If all goes well, I’m in India right now

By the time you read this, I will be in India. But I’m not there yet. I’m writing this in advance so you won’t be lonely and bereft when you turn to this page on Sunday and find it contains something that’s not mine, though probably more interesting and better written.
Anyway, I have to tell you that I’m getting slightly terrified about taking this trip, and not just because I had to get a typhoid shot. Some of you regular readers may think, “You’re alwa