Today, I get to start a train trip I've always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!!
This map shows that first section of the trip. I'm taking the "Lake Shore Limited", an overnight train. Will arrive in Chicago in around 20 hours, and amazingly, that's the only time I'll have to change trains!
We're first going north, following the Hudson river.
The seats are big and comfy! But the train seems to be booked out.
Surprise: We're stopping in Albany for a full hour! Maybe to connect with a train from Boston?
So now I can show you my train from the outside:
The connecting train was delayed, so now we also are! 🙃
Making our way out of Albany, now heading westwards!
I just realized that the entire trip from coast to coast will be 5000 kilometers long.
That's a lot of kilometers.
You could also say: Five megameters!
(3150 miles, for you folks with non-SI units :P)
It'll take three nights overall. I'm sooo hyped! 😆
When I told @piko about this trip, they reminded me of the time I got that book about hypersonic trains from the library, a hypothetical train system designed for 7200 km/h:
Attached: 4 images I went to the library today – and, well, I simply *had* to get this book! This is the utopia I'm here for! ("Hypersonic trains – requirements for a European network at 7200 km/h".)
Good morning!
Oof, didn't sleep much... the AC in the train is set ridiculously cold, the ride is very shaky, and there's nothing to lean your head against...
But we made it through a brief section of Pennsylvania and through Ohio, and are about to cross over to Indiana!
Most important thing to do during the stopover: Get more vegetables for the second stretch of the train trip!
But not these. One is not a vegetable, and I'm not sure if I can prepare the other one?
Visited Chicago's Climate Action Museum, and one of its central messages is: "Stay home!"
As someone who loves to travel, who takes so much joy from immersing myself in places, cultures, landscapes I'm not used to, this leaves me confused and conflicted... :/
blinry
Joe