Hilda’s Side of the Story…

I wrote this as I sat in the “elite” waiting area for those who purchased a sleeping car on the train. (Chelse got us the hook up) We are on assignment and that assignment is to create a blog entry accounting our first half of our journey on the train ride to Chicago.

Let me first begin at the very beginning of this adventure. Monday morning or afternoon, (I can’t remember) I asked Chelse if we were going to meet in one place or if I had to pick everyone up. She then tells me that we don’t leave on Tuesday night, but Wednesday night. Cool, we have one more day to pack. It’s about 4 pm on Tuesday and Victor’s Facebook status changed to something referring to leaving tonight to NY. I send him a comment saying we leave on Wednesday night not Tuesday night. Long story short, we did in fact leave Tuesday night and by 5:01pm panic ensued. I had to check my car, the tires, put gas etc etc. Well by 12:45 we’re officially on the road to San Antonio. Many hours/miles and Victor’s music selections later, we arrive to the San Anotnio Station where we find out that there isn’t a parking garage and the nearest one is four blocks away. We unloaded all of our luggage and alexis and I went to find the parking garage. After a while, we boarded the train and what an adventure did we have.

[Please refer to Victor’s or Chelse’s entry for this part about the train ride/fiasco between San Antonio and Fort Worth.]

I’ve been asked many times how it feels to ride a train, well it’s pretty much the same as a bus and plane. You feel the hum at your feet and the side to side movement, yet I think and have seen that the train has the capability (or magic) to make friends out of strangers. Everyone had a story to tell and weren’t hesitant to tell it to whoever was interested. The freedom of being able to walk around and visit other sections of the train makes it a lot more tolerable compared to limited mobility on buses and planes. People gathered on the observation car and would just look out the window or start up a conversation with whoever happened to be sitting next to them.

Hopefully this next train ride will be as entertaining as this past one.

-hildabot [roll out]