- Pulling into Chicago on the Empire Builder. Will need additional books for the return trip, I think. #
- Groggy on the train platform in St. Paul. 8 hours until Chicago. #
- Train through Glacier: elk, coyotes, mountain goats. No avalanches. #
- Observation car, hot coffee, sunrise in Glacier National Park. #
- Got time for a fast train. #
- Leaving for Chicago. ETA: two days from now. #
- Draft turnaround coincides neatly with commencement of vacation. I can enjoy the train ride with a clear conscience. #
- Is it crazy to let some people we’ve never met stay in our house while we’re away? Ominously, the internet is involved. #
- Packing for Chi-town, hoping we’ve provisioned well enough for the 32-hour train ride (coach seats). #
- The Break is redolent with the smell of baking parm/garlic bagels, one of the most disgusting foods I have ever tasted. #
- Amazing how many little frustrations can be eliminated… by replacing your hard drive. (Assuming it was disintegrating before.) #
- Who’s the wintertime shorts-wearer with the old-fashioned carnival-barker’s mustache, waxed to curled points, who haunts the Break? #
- What is “the lower Clark Fork” anyway? (They always say this on the weather report, but I can’t figure out where they are talking about.) #
- The first person was good enough for Poe, so it’s good enough for me. #
- Many good men and women lost their lives aboard this ship because someone wanted a faster computer to make life easier. #
- Apparently, only a madman would try to get across Roger’s Pass right now. #
- Steve’s obit, a well-told recounting of a well-lived life: http://tinyurl.com/cq5qur #
- Congratulations to the snow, which got off to a weak start but persevered and is finally piling up respectably on grass, sidewalks, trees. #
- RIP Steve Krauzer. (I’d link to his obit, but the Missoulian’s web site is a little 1997 and doesn’t seem to have it up yet.) #
An Archive, 2007-10