15 December to 18 December 2011 - Well!! What can I say - the train trip was very very long - 55 hours and sleep was in short supply due train announcements, stops, starts etc etc. The actual seating was excellent - lots of leg room and comfortable seats. The train is called the Texas Eagle and most of the travel was through Arizona and New Mexico and Texas which means a lot of flat empty land - made me homesick for Australia lol but saw no kangaroos. I saw the Border Patrol at work in one area - helicoptors and lots of cars and flashing lights. They must have caught up with some illegals crossing the border.
I also met some lovely people - Dawn and Kassidy - from Arizona. They were on the way to Chicago to spend Christmas with Dawn's folks. I felt for them - I got off the train at 11.30 at night on Friday and they still had to travel till 2 pm the next day. Like I said - it is such a long trip.
I was lucky that Paul Slater had put some movies on a portable hard drive for me and I set my computer up and watched about a dozen movies. Kept me out of trouble and helped pass the time away.
I will admit to having another purse "incident" but this time it turned out much better and it was returned to me. I think if I hadn't got it back I would have thought three times and you're out and would have caught the next plane back to Oz. :( It leaves such a sick feeling in your stomach when you realise it isn't where it should be.
After arriving in Little Rock on Friday night I got a cab to my motel. The taxi driver was a friend of Bill Clinton's and showed me some photos on his phone of the two of them together. He also stated "he never had sex with that woman either" lol It was about 1.30 by the time I was in bed and the next thing I knew it was light outside and someone was knocking at my door. I was cranky thinking "why is someone waking me up so damn early" - it was housekeeping and it was 11 am hehehe....I had been in such a deep sleep too...at least I caught up with the last 3 or 4 nights sleep.
Kae and Ang picked me up about midday (YAY!!!) and we went to the Dixie Cafe for lunch- great food and so nice to be back with Kae and Ang.
Got up today and actually went for a run - it felt so good after so long cooped up in the car getting fatter by the minute :) I was very slow but it was a cold crisp morning and it felt wonderful - I was very tired after :) If I'm not in pain tomorrow I'll go again.
Ang outdid himself today and cooked ribs - so yummy - had seconds which I shouldn't have but couldn't resist!! Life is good.
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