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Seeing America By Rail- Day 1
Okay, so it's the end of my first day, and I have literally no idea where we are right now. The last station I was aware of was Albany-Rensselaer in New York, but like I was telling ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rinhriveiel over Facebook, there aren't exactly road signs along train routes (unfortunately; it'd be really handy if there were!).
Pictures of today are somewhat boring from my POV, mostly because we're still in the northeast and it's all really similar to the stuff I see at home every day-- but I'm posting them anyway. There are a few from inside the train too, but not many yet. I'll take more on the bigger train (the Superliner) I'll be on tomorrow.
In Boston, walking to the train station from Au Bon Pain after having lunch. (It turns out they served lunch on the train too; oops.)
The train arriving and me boarding (the guy in the black sweater on the left in the second pic is my dad). Lower quality because they were taken with my mom's cell phone camera.
The little roomettes are really cool. They're tiny, but they don't actually feel as small as they are, if that makes sense. Granted, I just have my big suitcase and my messenger bag, but I still feel like I have a lot of room to store stuff. There's also a little cubbyhole thing across from the fold-down top bunk that I'm doing absolutely nothing with (though I might try to fit my suitcase in there if there's something like it on my two-night trips). For most of the trip I just had the two bunks folded down (the seats collapse and become the lower bunk) with my suitcase across from me and me sitting cross-legged. There's definitely enough room.
On the way out of Boston from Back Bay Station.
Just some random Massachusetts/New York countryside, taken from my roomette.
Some of the crap I brought with me. I like my suitcase.
I think this is all New York. You can tell it was raining.
My chin looks abnormally long. It's a little disturbing.
For the most part, today has been pretty much just sitting and looking at stuff out the window. The food's good; at dinner, I sat with a woman and we talked a loooooooot about animals and other things (but mostly animals), which was really fun. We exchanged email addresses so that we can send each other pictures of the different legs of our journeys (she's going to Dallas after we get to Chicago, and I'll be on my way to California). We also talked a little bit about family, and I felt like I sounded like a pathological liar when I got into some of our stuff ("my dad speaks Chinese, Russian, and Bulgarian and my mom speaks French and Bulgarian and also she used to work for the CIA!"), BECAUSE IT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS AND MADE-UP EVEN THOUGH IT'S TRUE.
Anyway, I'm up way past the time I was planning to be, so I'll post this and get off now. Tomorrow I'll get into Chicago at 9:45, seejeannette, and then head off on the California Zephyr at two!
rinhriveiel over Facebook, there aren't exactly road signs along train routes (unfortunately; it'd be really handy if there were!). Pictures of today are somewhat boring from my POV, mostly because we're still in the northeast and it's all really similar to the stuff I see at home every day-- but I'm posting them anyway. There are a few from inside the train too, but not many yet. I'll take more on the bigger train (the Superliner) I'll be on tomorrow.
In Boston, walking to the train station from Au Bon Pain after having lunch. (It turns out they served lunch on the train too; oops.)
The train arriving and me boarding (the guy in the black sweater on the left in the second pic is my dad). Lower quality because they were taken with my mom's cell phone camera.
The little roomettes are really cool. They're tiny, but they don't actually feel as small as they are, if that makes sense. Granted, I just have my big suitcase and my messenger bag, but I still feel like I have a lot of room to store stuff. There's also a little cubbyhole thing across from the fold-down top bunk that I'm doing absolutely nothing with (though I might try to fit my suitcase in there if there's something like it on my two-night trips). For most of the trip I just had the two bunks folded down (the seats collapse and become the lower bunk) with my suitcase across from me and me sitting cross-legged. There's definitely enough room.
On the way out of Boston from Back Bay Station.
Just some random Massachusetts/New York countryside, taken from my roomette.
Some of the crap I brought with me. I like my suitcase.
I think this is all New York. You can tell it was raining.
My chin looks abnormally long. It's a little disturbing.
For the most part, today has been pretty much just sitting and looking at stuff out the window. The food's good; at dinner, I sat with a woman and we talked a loooooooot about animals and other things (but mostly animals), which was really fun. We exchanged email addresses so that we can send each other pictures of the different legs of our journeys (she's going to Dallas after we get to Chicago, and I'll be on my way to California). We also talked a little bit about family, and I felt like I sounded like a pathological liar when I got into some of our stuff ("my dad speaks Chinese, Russian, and Bulgarian and my mom speaks French and Bulgarian and also she used to work for the CIA!"), BECAUSE IT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS AND MADE-UP EVEN THOUGH IT'S TRUE.
Anyway, I'm up way past the time I was planning to be, so I'll post this and get off now. Tomorrow I'll get into Chicago at 9:45, see
jeannette, and then head off on the California Zephyr at two!
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