Chicago. Again. So soon, but yeah here I am for 3 hours before I head out for Texas and Los Angeles after lunch. It was nice to be on the Superliner again. This was the City of New Orleans train. We left at 1:45 yesterday and arrived in Chicago today at 10:45. It was very cool to take the train along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain for quite a while, then up through Mississippi, Memphis Tennessee, a corner of Kentucky, and all the way through Illinois farm country and back into Chicago. I saw some beautiful country in Louisiana and Mississippi before dark. It is so neat to see all the woods, little towns, people sitting on a couch on the porch, a little country store facing the tracks with a dirt road leading to and from it. Quite a slice of the back yard of America! I think I could sit and watch the country go by for hours and days with out getting tired of it. Quite an uneventful trip, except for the drunken lady that passed out in her sleeper and the attendants had a hard time getting her off the train in Memphis! They finally roused her enough to get her to walk off the train. Hope she found her keys to drive home ok! Well, actually they said someone met her, so it seemed to turn out ok. It was rather funny to all of us in the car.
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2 comments:
Hi Steve, Carol told me you are leaving a 'trail' of events so I came on this evening to catch up with your trip. You make it sound very interesting! We scuffed our feet on those marble steps in Chgo back in '81 and again in '88. Been in Grand Central in NYC but not Penn. Keep enjoying! Ellen
well at least you are enjpying it i don't think i could
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