Mon aug 9

[Bones]

May not be on until next week. I just got back from a train ride to Krakow from my wife’s hometown then back which is 100 miles each leg, then turned around and went back to Krakow and continued on another 60 mi to Katowice to pick up my niece then turned around and went back to Krakow then back to the hometown for a total of 520 miles.

So I’m a little bushed. Wouldn’t be able to do to much more than AWACS today anyhow since my Tomcat driver is backpacking…

Wednesday at mission time I’ll be packing.

v6,
boNes

[PanzerMeyer]

Yikes. That's a lot of train riding for one day. Had I been in your shoes I most likely would have listened to my entire Beatles music collection (yet again).

[Bones]

Well the first Krakow leg and back was on the train. All the other legs were by car. That was the hard part. At least on the train you just sit and let someone else drive and just hope you don't get on the wrong train or miss the stop, haha!

v6,
boNes

[Bones]

How did Monday night go, BTW?

v6,
boNes

[PanzerMeyer]

Well the first Krakow leg and back was on the train. All the other legs were by car. That was the hard part. At least on the train you just sit and let someone else drive and just hope you don't get on the wrong train or miss the stop, haha!

v6,
boNes

Ah, so you did the driving? Personally I would not be comfortable driving in a foreign country especially since I don't know how to drive a stick shift and most rental cars in other countries are manual transmission.

[Bones]

Normally I do the driving. But this time I only did a little as I found out if you get caught driving without an international driving permit, they take your license, I usually do get one, but I noticed like when I rent a car, they never check so I was like well why pay for one if it never gets used? But apparently they have been cracking down on it now so when I found that out, I quit driving.

But still, being on the go over the course of 17 hours in a row was pretty demanding