Rushing to Berlin

By Lev Raphael
On my first German book tour, I was so excited to be going that I didn't think through the connections or the times involved, I just said yes to all the arrangements.  I didn't review flight or train schedules closely.  
Writer friends had told me that their best experiences on tour had been in Germany because that country had a rich and vibrant book culture and writers were considered artists.  "You'll be amazed at how well people treat you" was the consensus.
So I plunged into packing and studying guidebooks and brushing up on my German without thinking about what the travel i...