Adventures on the British public transportation system. Today, we join our adventurers as they attempt to get to a hotel outside London for a business engagement.
1. Walk to Covent Garden tube stop
2. Buy ticket for Underground
3. Take the Picadilly line to Picadilly Circus
4. Transfer to the Bakerloo line
5. Get off at Paddington Station
6. Go the Hilton concierge desk and ask directions to the train station
7. Cut through the Hilton lobby and arrive at train station
8. Buy train ticket to Reading station
9. Board train to Reading station
10. Become baffled by train door and do not get off at Reading station
11. Have train conductor write permission slip for return trip to Reading station
12. Get off train at Something-Or-Other Parkway (sheep country)
13. Get back on train going in opposite direction
13. Get off train at Reading station
14. Buy train ticket to Wokingham
15. Board train to Wokingham
16. Ask 23 people if this is the train to Wokingham and listen to 2 announcements about this being the train to Wokingham before being convinced that this is, indeed, the train to Wokingham
17. Check out train doors to make sure we can open them before train leaves station
18. Get off train in Wokingham
19. Take taxi to hotel
For tomorrow's meeting: hire a freaking car
