TRAVELING BY RAIL along the Western Ghats, leaving the Monsoon in Mumbai. We traveled on the newish (May 2017) Tejas Express, billed as a luxury train not affordable to the general Indian population, but relatively inexpensive for us. Once aboard the train I took pictures with my iPhone SE mostly pressed against steamy, rain-dropped windows with the train usually in motion, or at a slight angle to the window. Closest objects predictably lacked focus. My DSLR, of course, was not useful here as it wanted to autofocus on the window, which was too close, and the subjects beyond it did not offer enough clarify to focus on. Manual focus was not much of an option with the train on motion. So the diffused, blurred pictures, especially of close in subject matter, win no prizes but give a hazy visual impression of the trip down the route through the late-ending Monsoon. But the rural landscape was amazingly green and the colors of the people's clothing come through. It was perhaps metaphorical that these first images of a month in India were not clear, my view of this huge and diverse country not yet in focus.