End of the Line

Imagine if you can riding a train to the edge of a dream. You awake and you're still on the train. Keep imagining that you're still on the train until the train arrives at the end of your imagination.  Come back to reality and realize that you are sitting at a station about to miss your last connection to your final destination -the origin of the next step in your long journey. Now you are back on a train. 

From Chicago, Iz and I were on the Western Express for twenty five hours until we stepped off at Albuquerque, NM to stretch our legs and snap a couple pictures! We asked if a train was our southbound to San Diego and this lady says "nope we are norrthbound" but sounded uncertain of her answer. Two minutes before it left another agent asked if we were headed to SD and said same train was leaving now and was certainly our train. Coming so close to missing our last train connection was heart pounding and unfun!  Lesson: when you change trains ask at least two people to verify your train so you dont miss it! 

Back on the train we rode for another twenty two hours to San Diego.   Traveling by train is great overall. Very little traffic. Don't have to worry about dozing. Sleeper includes all meals and snacks; no complaints about salmon, flatiron steaks, unlimited snacks juice and coffee, omelets and beef brisque stew. Now though, we don't have a place to stay in San Diego, so its looking like stealth camping on a beach...unless something saves us last minute. The real adventure and learning starts today! Happy birthday to me :~)