Travel day 1&2
I did sleep well, woke up
early, about
Shirt of the day… Please stand clear of my vacation in
English & Spainish
Wearing it.. it doesn’t have wrinkles J
I get everything to my car, sit in my car and call for a Lyft
car. I get one, three minutes till he
picks me up. He is actually on the other
side of the
First problem of my trip, the
old piece of luggage I am taking, the retractable handle…. Isn’t
retracting. But he is able to get into
his back like that. I do have a mask, I
ask if he felt better if I wore it, he doesn’t care. So I am off,
Its been years since I walked around
I almost recognize the entrance, its been years. I am in the concourse. Again, looks familiar but so different. I see signs about Moynihan Station,
so I follow the
signs, past the
I look around and I see signs for the first
class lounge.
I take the escalator up, show my smartphone which had the scan symbol. I turn to walk to the
left of the desk, he points me to the right. I don’t know why I went left, but I am inside
the lounge.
One concern down, another to go. I was concerned I would get ot the lounge without
incident. I did. I place my stuff at a chair
and went around looking for something to eat. I get a orange juice
and a egg sandwich with sausage.
Oh yea.. forgot to take a
photo of my luggage, so I take one in the lounge. As my usual thing I do, I start to watch The
Warriors on my smartphone.
I also get a chocolate chip muffin and a
coffee.
I also try a diet root beer. It has a long thin neck bottle, cant drink
from it. So I give it back to someone
behind the counter, explaining, it is almost full, I didn’t want to just throw
it in the garbage.
About `10:50, they announce the gate, and we are headed down to the main
floor. The agent at the gate is amazed
by the amount of people,
He says there is no train here yet. We wait a bit. And I am not the only one who is wondering
who has a new or old car. It seems
popular opinion, we prefer bowls in the roomettes, One woman wanted a new car, but didn’t know
it wont have a bowl.
They finally let us enter the escalator to go down to the platform. The sleepers are in the rear, so it’s a
little walk. I tell them my train number
and roomette, and show me which car I am in.
Now I know my luggage fits, but it’s the roll bag that doesn’t. I do make it to my car,
figure out which direction the train will move, so I face the direction of train
movement. My luggage sits on the other
side. It’s a new car, no bowl in the
roomette. Oh well… need to make the best
of it.
my room for the next 23 hours
Right on time the platform is
moving… well.. we are
moving. I get my tablet online just a
moment after we are moving, through the tunnel and out in the open in
That is the Sleeping Car Attendant explaining to the passengers where the
bathrooms are, in the rear of the car.
Listen to the part about locking the door when using it. Lets just say when I
went to use it once… someone didn’t listen about locking the door.
they are taking reservations for lunch, I choose
I have my usual cheeseburger
with chips for lunch. They make me sit with
three other gentleman. I take my backpack of electronics with me, but leave it
out of sight in the dining car.
I took with me a good pair of
Bluetooth ear buds which I don’t use on a daily basis. In a pocket I find a Bluetooth transmitter in
my backpack. I forgot I owned this. So with a little trouble I get ear buds to
work with the bt
transmitter. I even tried to look online
for information how to pair it. It is no
longer sold through amazon and I couldn’t find any
other info on it, but I got it to work anyway.
So I watched a couple of episodes of Emergency using ear phones, which
is what Amtrak prefers you to do, but more likely for the coach, not roomette
passengers.
While we change locomotive
power in
I am not sure where I took
this video, approaching? Leaving
I get the salad, found some
decent salad dressing. I even tried the
small tomatoes. I bit into it, and it
squirted onto the table setting next to me, but no one is seated next to me, I order the flat
iron steak, minus the mixed viggies. The steak is good and hot. As far as dessert, just like for lunch, they
only have one item for passengers. Passing through
I order to have my bed made
up. I go up, watch more emergency, try to sleep, look out the window.
I climb down to sit and look out the window from the seat. I noticed a magic band on the floor. I am surprised I didn’t notice it
before. I look at the name inscribed….
Bruce… I must have dropped it from my
backpack, and not noticed. When I leave
the car, need to make sure I didn’t loose anything else.
I wake up for breakfast, I
have my usual.. cheese omelet
seated with a couple.
The husband does something I never seen done before. He has soda for breakfast, adds coffee
creamer to the soda.
I go back to the room sleep
some more. I also see I got a text message, my scooter is out for delivery.
At
Sleeper car
Then starts the countdown…
Palatka
Deland
Winterpark
Hel lo Or Lan
Do
taken by
My luggage is on the heavy side, so I take the roll bad and backpack down
first, then the luggage.
Virginia and Alan are there to meet me. One adventure over, another to start.