Fly Delta from MSP directly to Paris CDG landing at 8:30, hop onto the TGV at 12:30 to Strasbourg, t

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I'm the trip planner. Always have been, probably always will be. My vacation does not start until I set my luggage on the hotel bed. I have a plan A, plan B, and a credit card plan C. I know I should enjoy the journey but I enjoy the execution of plan A more than the journey itself. downtown san diego hotels I know it is a stupid thing to enjoy, especially when I am at the mercy of airlines and on this trip, European train and bus lines.
Fly Delta from MSP directly to Paris CDG landing at 8:30, hop onto the TGV at 12:30 to Strasbourg, downtown san diego hotels take a bus into Oberkirch and a cab to the hotel, about 1 1/2 miles from the bus station, up the mountain in the Black Forest downtown san diego hotels region of Germany.
Hunkee doree, land early, fly through immigration, pick up our bag and could have made the 8:30 train to Strasbourg. That O.K., there's one at 10:30. They want $140. Euros for two tickets on the 10:30 train. I'll wait. Get to the Strasbourg station around 3:00 and my Andrews chip and pin credit card will not work in the machine to purchase bus passes. Miss the bus. The next bus is in 90 minutes. After that there is a 60 minute wait to catch the following bus into Oberkirch. It will be too dark to see by the time we arrive, not in the plan.
The train. Neither I nor the agent in Strasbourg downtown san diego hotels can purchase train tickets to Oberkirch. WTF. I have never been to Oberkirch and I want to get to the hotel before dark. We can get tickets to every surrounding town but not to Oberkirch.
Avis. Visa. Where is the light switch? Wipers? What kind of fuel did he say? The Renault was great, a SUV type of vehicle. Strasbourg is busy, and crowded. I am from the farm, these people are in a hurry. They like to blow their horns. There is road construction everywhere. I wish the iPhone had a bigger screen. Much bigger, damn, missed the freeway downtown san diego hotels exit and there is no place to turn around, or pull over the get my bearings and new directions. Head east is all I know, and we get to Oberkirch. There is road construction in Oberkirch, and the train tracks are tore up. That is why we could not buy tickets in France to the town. We see the castle ruins on the mountain and I remember downtown san diego hotels that the hotel is a little south of the ruins. So north we go. I should mention that I brought along my compass(thanks Kerouac)and downtown san diego hotels used it every day on this trip. We find the hotel before dark(yea, just like I planned )and I throw my luggage onto the bed, 21 hours after leaving home. It took my great,great grandfather Friedrich, the immigrant ziggypop, weeks to make that journey.
Do you have fish hooks in your mouth, nuke? Generally, if you are holding your breath, it has abated, so it becomes bated breath. (No, I am not picking on you, because I know that you know this -- but I think that a lot of people do not, so it's always good to have a grammatical reminder from time to time.)