how we got around

in Paris and then Switzerland

photos in no particular order

 before we ever left America I had a dream--

I had to jump down and snatch Liz out of the way

she had fallen in the path of a subway train

 “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

 our flat was in Clichy

it took us 20 minutes to get to Paris

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

when we see this sign we know we can go underground for a ride

 that map is the bible of the subway system

 many times the cars were standing room only

Nate always made sure I had a seat

 someone is always needing a ride

 “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

 we started each day on the 13

it was good luck for us

if you can read and navigate this map you've got it made

lose this ticket and you have a headache

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

this silver train took us from Paris to Zurich in just over four hours

with amazing countryside to view 

precision clocks---precision trains---welcome to Switzerland
my brother lives is Thalwil

any time we sat was a nice time to rest

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

 “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

i left my black sweater on the train

dang!

 “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

 Swiss and French have very efficient modes of travel

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

 don't even think about talking if you are in a quiet car

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

she was always tired

fun

but tired

 “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

 on our way to church in Zurich

 she really is Swiss!

her great-grandmother and grandfather are 100% Swiss

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

getting around 

practice makes perfect

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