Stepping out of customs and into a crowded pen of late-night travelers, the warm Mumbai air reassures me we are no longer in China. Bunches of people are waiting, but not for us. Unfortunately, that appears to include the taxi driver we'd supposedly hired in advance.

"Sometimes you have to surrender before you win. Surrender is at the heart of the Indian experience."   — Gregory David Roberts, from Shantaram

If there's one thing I've learned about India, it's that surrender really is at the heart of the Indian experience. There are so many inexplicable hoops and loops to everything here, and the method in which they are worked out rarely makes logical sense. 

In this instance, in order to find our driver, we have to pay someone to contact someone else who eventually discovers our guy sleeping in his car.