Train Ride:Paris

The taxi arrived on time and the ride was only 20 min. However Paris is like Houston. A 20 min ride can take 20 min or it can take an hour. I planned for the hour.

Got my ticket from the machine and figured out how to find my platform. Paid 0.8 euros to use the toilet. That was interesting. Everyone paid and then men went right and women went left.

I’m sitting on the train using the station WiFi and praying I’m in the right seat. Thank God there is a phone charger by me. I can save my power pack.

And I can read. I know I’m attached to my phone anyway but it is everything. Book, map, translator…and if I had it set up right wallet. With a phone and a power pack I truly would need nothing else.

On my way here I read a Jack Reacher novel I bought in the Austin airport and left in the Paris airport. (I’d read it and I wasn’t going to carry it.) I think I understand his lifestyle. I think I maybe could do it. Maybe.