In August of 1971, Wayne, Lois, Kathy, Mark and Kent flew to Germany where they joined Wayne Jr and Neva for a twenty one day tour of Europe by Eu-rail trains. We left Mark and Darren at Kitsingen and Kent and Kristen at Frankfurt with sitters.

Our trip began at Frankfurt, Germany. Most of the time, we traveled during the day then, spent the night in a motel and visited a large city the next day. We traveled at a very fast pace.

One leg of our trip was an overnighter, where we traveled through France on an over crowded train. That night, we slept in our recliner sleeper seats. Kathy got up early the next morning to go to the restroom. She kept returning to our enclosed curtain berth saying there was a man sleeping in front of the restroom door and she was afraid to awaken him.

After a few tries at intervals, a French lady riding in our cubicle for six (five were Guffy's) saw what was going on. She got up from her sleeper seat and motioned with her hands with a gesture that we understood that she would take care of things. She motioned for Kathy to follow her. I was not comfortable for Kathy to go off with a stranger and followed to see what the lady was going to do. I assumed she would only “chew” the perpetrator out, but she walked over to the sleeping man, raised her foot backwards and swung it forward with force as she gave the sleeping man a hard swift kick right in the stomach. I was shocked and ready to scramble to safety, because I assumed any man awakened like that would surely come up fighting. The Frenchman grunted with discomfort, looked up at the lady, got up and mumbled off some French then moved to the side so Kathy could enter the restroom. We found out later they were Frenchmen who boarded the train during the night without permission. Most likely, the French lady had in mind that a shy little girl needed to use the restroom and these bums were preventing her from entering the Toilette.