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Oh, hand me down my riding cane, I'm off to meet my darling Jane
For the first time in nineteen months, I am on a train. It is the Amtrak Regional, pulling out of South Station in the mid-morning light that makes rusted rails and gravel ballast and the under-angles of concrete overpasses look like sandstone. The trees as they start to gather outside the city are strong summer green a few days off the solstice, all the old industrial buildings are the tilt-shift miniatures of red brick and graffiti sliding away at angles to the tracks and I am in the presence of the densest number of people I have experienced since I had to walk into a hospital last summer. Technically I am in the quiet car, but my neighbor across the aisle keeps leaning over to talk to me, as if we were in a study hour at school. Perhaps she hasn't been around other humans in nineteen months, either. We are all slightly feral. Soon there will be salt marshes and the sea that I have seen far too little of, the Atlantic of the Northeast Corridor. In more hours than I really care to think about, there will be my godchild and their parents and their house which I have met only through the talkie window. At some point I assume my anxiety at the immediate press of people will recede and I'll pass out per usual and wake up superfluously at New Haven. What a weird thing it is to move around in the world.
[edit 2021-06-18 11:05:00] Atlantic achieved.
[edit 2021-06-18 11:05:00] Atlantic achieved.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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That would do it! I think it may be one of my traveling songs.
Have a good trip!
Thank you!
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(have a lovely time!)
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*on its behalf, waves*
(have a lovely time!)
Thank you!
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The sea is very friendly. It waves at everyone.
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It's one of the things I like about it.
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Hello to your side, too!
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Most excellent Atlantic, with even better humans together.
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I am looking forward to the humans at the other end of this trip.
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Thank you! It was, actually. I dozed through New Haven and woke up for real at New York.
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I see from comments that the trip was successful, and wish you a lovely visit and a good return.
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It is very important! (So is personal space.)
I see from comments that the trip was successful, and wish you a lovely visit and a good return.
Thank you! The trip is still in progress in that we have just passed BWI and my destination is Union Station and then some shenanigans with the Metro, but knock-wood-shockingly the train does not appear to have been delayed by some major calamity or silliness, which honestly puts it ahead of many Amtrak Regionals I have taken in my life.
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Thank you! So far, so good!
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Nine
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What country, friends, is this?