As a wise man once said...

it's the Lone Wolf that runs farther and faster. Normally, I think I would rather be travelling with someone but the last couple of days it is probably better I was by myself. I spent Friday morning and afternoon in Paris. Visited a couple of museums, took the Paris "Sewer Tour", and went to the top of Notre Dame. Went back to the hostel then to get my pack so I could catch a train out of town. On Friday evening in Paris, the tracks had a power outage. Don't know how long they were out, but there were people all over the place in that station. Don't know why it didn't stress me out that much, but it didn't. Even the thought of spending the night in the train station didnt bother me that much. Anywaz, I finally caught a train out of town and arrived in Metz, France arriving around 9 30 pm. A local helped me across town in the direction of the campground which closed at 10 p.m. I arrived around 10 30 pm but they still let me in. Yesterday morning then, I travelled to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg and then tried to figure out how to get to Bastogne, Belgium. Cant believe it, but no trains go to Bastogne so I had to take buses. I walked so much yesterday around Bastogne...a total of around 12 miles I think with my pack. But I did make it out to the forest where the 101st defended the northeast part of Bastogne and ran around for quite a while in the trees looking at the old foxholes. Then I went down to Foy, Belgium and finished the trip walking back to Bastogne. Met a nice guy from Denmark named Michael in the Bastogne campgrounds. We visited for a long time last night and I showed his son a few of the magic tricks I brought with me. Woke up early this morning before 6 a.m. and decided to look for a bus out of town...got lucky and found one. The bus took me to Ettelbruck, and from here I caught a train to Luxembourg City. I hoofed it out to the American cemetary at Hamm, Lux and saw General Patton's grave, and then made my way back to the station to catch a train to Trier, Germany. There I caught a train to Koblenz, Germanz and from there to Bacharach, Germany where I am writing from now. The trip today has gone fairly smooth. I'll be staying two nights here at the Bacharach castle. See if you can get some pictures from Google Images as it is pretty neat. I have just been walking around town since arriving. I got in around 3 pm which was too late to check in and then do anything.....alot of the sites close up at 6 p.m. Oh....the place I am stazing in is overrun with school kids and they are going absolutely berzerk....hopefully, I'll be able to get some sleep tonight. Tomorrow, I am hoping to visit two castles...one is just up the Rhine river...Rheinfels castle at St. Goar (by the way, I have a great view of the Rhine river from the castle) and the other is a ways away on the Mosel river at Moselkern called Eltz castle. Hopefully, I can get them both in tomorrow. If possible, I would also like to get into Mainz, Germany and see if my friend the cop is working....I might be able to do that on Wednesday I guess also. Cant think of a whole lot else to talk about so I will close again for now.

God Bless,
SNorris
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