I arrived to Stuttgarton Sunday, Feb 4 at 9am and made my way to the flugenhafen which is the airport train station. It would be 33e or approx $40 for a 3 hour train ride to Rothenburg which would include train change at Ansbach and Steinach. Steve was unable to pick me up as he was working. I had 3 large bags and a purse. Not good. Imagine Park Street station at rush hour. One wrong move and my bags (all just under the 50 lb limit) were going to drag me down the flight of stairs. I imagined multiple broken bones, a german ED and I had only just arrived. I had only 4 minutes between connections in Steinach which entailed leaving the rail I arrived on, going underground, over and up to another rail section. The door closed to my train as I was emerging from underground. It would be an hours wait on an open platform before another train for me. I packed it in and called a cab.Let me rephrase that. There was a young man, probably Kevin or Pat's age who watched me struggle and offered to help me with my bags. He had been sitting and texting for a bit. I asked if he would call me a cab (I don't have the foggiest idea how to do this nor do I speak German). Luckily the young man spoke English and I had a cab ready in 10 minutes. I reassured myself that it was worth it, I had been traveling since I pulled out of my driveway at 9:30 am the day before, it was now noon. Enough was enough.