The worst thing about business travel is the timing. Yes, you're going places; No, you can't have a look around. Next worst: you go places at the wrong time of the year - Hungary in December, Atlanta in August. Then there's the language gap. Standing in line at the Budapest airport cafeteria surrounded by hundreds of people speaking in Hungarian...

Fergus drove us up to the Keleti Train Station. This century-old building is filled with the most run-down people and trains imaginable. Almost no lighting, groups of young men hanging around, even Fergus had a hard time figuring out where to buy tickets. "I never take the train because I'd have to leave the car in the parking lot and, you know....