Preliminaries: I began my journey, after an overnight stay at a motel near the Spokane airport, bright and early on the 5th of August. After being abused, degraded, humiliated, and stripped of my rights by the TSA and too stupid and apathetic to do anything about it I flew from Spokane to Denver first, then to Midway from Denver. All flights smooth and left early from Spokane, and got into Denver half an hour early. After a nearly 6 hour layover in Denver, I flew to Midway. I retrieved my luggage and grabbed a cab to the Summit Amtrak stop, where I would travel to Bloomington and meet my uncle. The next day we would begin our TE/CS trip. The cabbie neither spoke much English nor had a clue where the station was, so I navigated for him as best I could. I had prepared for him not to know where he was going so had thoroughly studied Google Maps for complete directions.. At any rate, with my doing everything but driving for him, we got there in plenty of time to catch Licoln Service 307. It was on time, and our coach attendant and cafe car attendant were top-notch. I was disappointed, though, as the high-speed track south of Dwight topped off at 96 mph, and that only briefly. It averaged about 90 mph between Dwight and Pontiac. We got into Bloomington right about on time, maybe a few minutes late.
100 or so miles down, nearly 4000 to go! I'm posting this as traveling west of Alpine, TX, on my phone and there's no signal (No signal in West Texas??? Whatta surprise! :lol: so may be awhile before I can post again. Stay tuned!
100 or so miles down, nearly 4000 to go! I'm posting this as traveling west of Alpine, TX, on my phone and there's no signal (No signal in West Texas??? Whatta surprise! :lol: so may be awhile before I can post again. Stay tuned!