11/24/15 7:30 PM Up at 5:30 AM and found we were almost in Kansas City – I opened my room’s drape to see the glowing red sign proclaiming, “Jack Stack BBQ.” I knew exactly where I was! The conductor let us have a “fresh air break” at the trainstation and I paced back and forth by …
11/25/15, 6:45 PM It is a good thing my iphone always knows where I am because on a train, you’d have no idea- Yesterday we moved on to a new train and this had a smoother ride for sleeping and I was out till 7AM. My iphone told me I was in Ohio – Found the coffee, …
November 23, 4:43 PM Someone told me that you sleep really well on a train. That is not proving true for me. Sure, it might be the tiny bed but really, I think it is the constant shaking of the train. I’d fall asleep and 20 minutes later I’d wake up thinking it was an …
November 22, 2015, 5:55PM I am not totally sure why I am here. It started when I heard about a week-long residency Amtrak offered to writers. The idea caught my imagination and before I knew it, I had applied. I didn’t get it. But, not one to let that throw me, I started thinking about …