My hand hovered over the purchase button as I stared at the Rail Europe screen for the third time. Each time I tried to book overland train tickets from Turin, Italy to the coast, the little red warning about not much time to change trains in Genoa popped up and I chickened out. “Have you looked to see what Rick Steve says?” Tony looked up from his book out the French doors on the Airbnb balcony.

“Right.” I threw some words into the search function on Rick Steve’s Community Forum, and sure enough, another traveler said how many train lines docked in the station and how long it might reasonably take to switch trains. Ten minutes was more than enough. I clicked the purchase button, and for less than $40 we had three adult tickets taking us the 2 ½ hours from the mountains to the coast for Part II of our Italian adventure.