Seats on the TGV to La Rochelle

In Transit

IN TRANSIT covers the time and space between points A and B: on foot,by bike, by car, by train, by boat, by plane, by will, by chance, and by circumstance. Whether long enough to qualify as a journey or so brief that you can still see point A from point B, the passage or transition from there to here—or here to there—lends itself to some of our most memorable and curious travel experiences, reflections, and encounters.

Bomb Threat on the TGV

By Gary Lee Kraut

I was on the train to La Rochelle, an old port town midway down France’s Atlantic coast, where I would spend 24 hours researching an article before going to a new year’s eve celebration in the Vendée countryside.

I shared a 4-seat section with a laid-back couple and their joyful, fidgety 3-year-old girl. I had a window seat, riding backwards.