I got to Weissenburg at about 12 o'clock. I inquired where I could get a conveyance to Alstadt from the man who apparently was a porter. He told me that Alstadt was far away and that I would have to take a train. He said it was not called Alstadt now, but Rabistadt. He took me to a man in uniform, who apparently confirmed what had been told me, and I was informed that I could get a train in about an hour. I visited Weissenburg and came back in one hour. I took the train for a place called Sels where I went to get the stage for Alstadt. In the car I got into conversation with a gentleman and told him where I was going. He was from Weissenburg and well acquainted there. He informed me that Alstadt was ten minutes walk from Weissenburg and that I would have to return to Weissenburg. I got out and waited for a train to Weissenburg. It was nearly six o'clock when I got back and it was quite dark. I got a train hand to accompany me with his lantern and visited Fr. Harding Fischer, pastor of Alstadt...I did not get home until after ten o'clock and as I had had no dinner and had tramped about in the mud a great deal I was very tired and hungry.

--Lawrence Flick, November 25, 1902

(excerpted from the book "Beloved Crusader: Lawrence F. Flick, Physician," by Ella M. E. Flick, 1944)