Friday night I just hopped on a train heading to Wein in three minutes. It wasn’t until a few minutes after the train pulled off I figured out that Wein is Vienna. Got there okay at about 8am, saw a small, free, and pointless contemporary art museum, then rode the public transportation to Suberbia Vienna where a campsite was located. Paid about $6 for a campsite, rode back, and saw a good bit of Vienna. Vienna is ridiculously expensive, so after getting up at 10am the next morning, I just went ahead and hopped on a train to Budapest. I met a guy from Florida named Chris while waiting for the train, so we’ve been roaming around Budapest together which is nice, because traveling is somehow less nerve wracking this way. And you don’t talk to yourself as much. Budapest is dirt cheap. We paid $7 for a hostel bed last night, and tonight we’re sleeping on the floor at a different place for $2 with a bunch of Japanese people that make us take our shoes off when we walk in. Plus a weird Canadian whose favorite expression is, “Man, that’s the shit.” (usage: If you want to say Prague was really cool and really cheap, you say, “Man, Prague’s the shit.”) Chris and I plan to hit a few museums, walk over to Buda, perhaps play in the Turkish baths a bit. Had bread and sour cherry nectar for breakfast ($1.50), along with a 33 cent ice cream cone. I’m liking Budapest. I dunno where I’ll head from here, I’m thinking Slovakia for a little bit, maybe just Bratislava, maybe I’ll head out in the country side. But Slovakia’s no good on my Eurail pass even though it’s quite cheap, so I may just head back west toward Germany. Maybe see a bit of western Austria. Who knows.

Last night Chris and I were propositioned by two hookers, a guy who wanted to sell us hash, a girl at the train station who tried to get us to stay at her hostel because she worked as receptionist there, and would take us there personally, and show us the pubs… Heh, still not worth $16 a night instead of $7.

And someone finally checked my passport and stamped it, I feel very official and important. Anyway, 10 minutes of this is a lot of ice cream, so I’m heading out. Ten minutes is all you get:)