12 février 2011 - Two Weeks of Travel Begins

SAMEDI
Obama t-shirt hanging over the garbage and recycling complex outside the Sarlat train station.
 Access to the platform is taped off. It is a bit after noon and I am waiting for the bus to depart from Sarlat.
 La Dordogne.
 The train heading north pulls into la gare de Souillac where I hop on and head to Paris.
The skies turn grey as we continue toward Paris.
 Gare d'Austerlitz is still decorated with Christmas lights.
I pass a mattress leaning against a bus stop on my walk from gare d'Austerlitz to gare d'Est.
 Board the night train to Munich.
The compartment I share with between one and three other people throughout the journey east.