November 25, 2005
Kosice
(Day 280) Should there be a purpose to traveling? Besides just looking at the sights and scenery and being amazed at the beauty man and nature came up with? Is the real prize interaction with locals, however brief, and gaining insight on unfamiliar customs? If it's the latter, I - and most other backpackers - are going about it the wrong way. I should be spending weeks in each town, learning the language, to truly immerse myself in foreign cultures.
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November 24, 2005
Where the train takes you...
(Day 279) Jason and I were supposed to meet in the main hall at 7:50am, twenty minutes before departure. I wager he overslept, or underestimated morning rush hour, and by 8:05am, when he hadn't shown up, I shrugged and boarded the train alone. If he showed up at the last minute, I'm sure we'd see each other at the other end.
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Bratislava
(Day 278) The journey from Krakow to Bratislava required a change of trains in Breclav. The junction sits just north of the point where Czech, Austrian, and Slovakian borders intersect, so technically, I was standing on Czech territory for about ten seconds.
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