The journey home
I set my alarm to wake me up
at
I woke up about 6. I reset my alarm for 9. When my alarm
went off at 9, I got up and just threw all my stuff into the suitcase. Packing is finished as long as the suitcase
closes and it does J. During my
stay I placed the do not disturb sign on my day, so they leave new towels, soaps, and such in
a large pull string close plastic bag. I
place all my dirty clothes in it, but I can hardly close it. I guess because of the extra days, I have
more dirty clothes then expected. So I
used one of the extra bags from souvenirs for dirty laundry too.
I check the outside of my
door and I find the room charge receipt.
Right away I notice something wrong.
I have two charges for ‘Ohana the same
night. One is my tip, then a second
charge of $56. Remember my problem of
the missing two meal credits? Well,
there is more to the story. I called the
front desk and asked about the second charge.
That second charge was a meal for a child and a $20 tip. Long story short, without any complaints,
after assuring her that I was by myself, she reversed the charge. I almost paid for another family to eat at ‘Ohana.
I also made my bounceback package reservations for next year. But I won’t even think about that anymore
till March.
I called the ECV company with
the same number they called me on, a cell phone of the delivery person. He said he was just about to call me. I told him to drive to the 50’s parking lot
and I will meet him there. He calls me
back and I find it. I hand over the ECV and that’s it. He picked it up around
I walked to the food court,
got a breakfast (I will have one unused QS credit leftover) and used my last snack.
I brought the food back to my room. As I
was approaching my room I see housekeeping knocking on my door to see if I left
the room. It was
I ate my breakfast, looked
over the room for the last time, finished my last yoo
hoo, and headed out.
I pass by luggage services
and I see the scale there. For years I
wanted to know how heavy my backpack of electronics is? 32 pounds J I wait with my
luggage by the main entrance of the resort.
I try and text message back to my car service, but there is a problem
with the text messaging service. I start to get nervous, maybe he is trying to
contact me and it isn’t working? I try
and call, but just get voice mail. But before
The ride back to the train
station is uneventful.
artwork
hanging in station
I check in at the station’s ticket window and I
explain that the paper I have my e-ticket on was wet, but dried now. I explain
that I hope it is still good. Once on
the train, they scan a dot code to make sure I paid for the trip. The attendant tells me not to worry.
My train is running late,
should arrive at
I wonder with the train
running late, if they will still be serving lunch or not??
The train arrives
Having a wait to service the
engine, loading luggage and such, we leave Orlando Station close to
And for dessert,
cheesecake.
We are going very slow and stopping
for periods of time. This doesn’t look
good for getting back into
This is the south terminal of
the Auto Train,
Those ramps are used to drive
the cars off the car carriers. We pass
it around
There is an unexpected consequence
of going so slow and running so late. The
train crew, the personal that operate the train, not the ones that serve the
passengers, they are only allowed to work x amount of hours before resting for
x amount of hours, before returning to work. The same with
flight crews. Normally we switch crews in
A passenger at dinner is disembarking at
I have dinner just after
leaving
After dinner and a new train
crew, we are going zooming our way up north.
Nothing to report except, I sleep,
watch dvd movies and such.
I get my usual breakfast of
cheese omelet, bacon, and Apple Juice.
We make it into
We pull into Penn Station
before 2. We should have arrived just
after 11.
I was on train 98- Silver Meteor
Next
stop
and home.