83, 
from Washington to Pittsburg 1 estimate, 2here is bo Ooolr office 
in Pisa. I asked at the hotel where they *old me they were Cook's 
agents in Msa. Ihis ie the route the man said was best-- isa, 
Stein, stopping at every crossroads for several minutes to an hour, 
Modane, the french frontier which I can't find on my map. ! i?he man 
at Pisa told me 1 would reach Geneva the following afternoon, hut 
when I waked in the morning and saw we had not reached rurin , I had 
my douhts. The train was not crowded that night and I could lie 
down all night, "e reached Modane ahout 4:30 and left at 6 p.m. 
There was the usual scrapie to get baggage examined— or a hit 
worse for there was a trainload of Italian laborers coning into 
France loaded with hags and bundles to .knock one around with. When 
there is plenty of time between trains to do the thing without a J 
jam they lock the door and won't examine trunks until sfeortly be- 
fore .train time. They did the same at Salzburg. It must be fta 
for the officials but it is pretty hard on the Yietime. Chere is 
no through train to Geneva, I had to change at Ouloa. Between 
trains I walked out of town beside a lovely little rocky stream. 
I met two little boys whistling the ilarseiUaise and realised 1 
was in Prance. I had a hair breadth escape from going past Culoz. 
1 had been told that I changed at 1 am. I was dozing and waked, 
looked out of the window when the train stopped about 12:15. I 
eaw Culor, on a sign (it isn't often you can see the name of the 
station) and gathered my baggage and rushed for the door-locked. 
By the time I found a door that could be o ened, in another car, 
the train was moving. ?or once there was a s to ion agent outside. 
I yelled "Geneve" and threw my baggage at him and Jumped. He was 
worse scared than I was. What scares me is losing sight of my 
hag £ age. She train for Geneva came in at 6:39 a.m. ti reminded 
Jot hunting uo Ashe's types' localities in lorth Carolina. 
