The Law of Averages November 17, 2006

Today is another travel day for Holly and me. We are leaving Chamonix and France with our destination being Venice, Italy. This requires another marathon day of travel starting at 6:40AM when we left the hotel with a schedule to arrive in Venice at 6:08 PM. This will require taking five trains. As I write this we are on number four which runs from Chambery Challes to Milan. Unfortunately this train is running about 45 minutes behind schedule so we may not make our connection to Venice. The good news is there is another train that runs two hours later than our scheduled train so with any luck we can still reach Venice tonight.

Today we see another side of autumn. The day is cool and cloudy and we have run through rain several times since we left Chamonix this morning. We’ve been lucky that all the stations where we have changed trains were either covered or it was not raining. Again the weather gods smile on us giving us good weather when we are visiting an area and saving the inclimate weather for travel days. We shall sacrifice a small cow to them tonight by having a nice steak dinner when we finally arrive at our destination.

I’ll add to this later if we don’t make Venice tonight.

Update: We missed the 3:05, 4:05, 4:15, 5:05 and 5:15 trains to Venice; the last three because they were sold out when we arrived in Milan 1hour and 15 minutes late. We finally got on the 6:05PM, second class, and we arrived at our hotel around 10PM. We were lucky that our hotel was only a five minute walk from the train station.