Let's Take a Trip

Dave and I are taking a trip.  As I write this we're  on Amtrak's Silver Meteor and sharing a Viewliner Roomette headed from Winter Park, Florida to Washington D.C.  We hope the city is still there when we arrive in the morning. The trip is approximately 17 hours but that includes (hopefully) a night of sleep.  By the way, the Roomette is a very afordable option for seniors who couldn't possibly sit in couch for that long.

So far, we're loving it.  The roomette is the teeniest, tiniest room for two that you can imagine.  Oh, and that includes a sink and toilet.  We were both concerned about having to travel a couple of times during the night to find the restrooms, but, low and behold, the toilet is right next to Dave's seat. However, at some point the seat becomes a bed and another bed materializes from the ceiling. Two sets of friends have told us that this experience is really fun if you really like each other.  We'll see.

Please wish us luck.

Roomette

After a couple of days in D.C. we'll continue on Amtrak to Boston, a seven hour trip.  Three days later we'll do the reverse.

The train was an hour or so late arriving in Winter Park (which I understand is not unusual) so we had our lunch on the Avenue. We sat next to an old black man who had been a Muslim prison chaplain all his life.  We enjoyed his stories until we just couldn't take it anymore (he never took a breath) so spent the rest of the time waiting at the station. The Winter Park station is small but elegant.

D.C. early 70s. 

 After boarding, and since our lunch on the train was paid for, we went to the dining car and had a cheesecake dessert and coffee.  It reminded me of Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in the film "White Christmas" sitting in the dining car singing "Snow."   Friends have told us the food isn't great but, as you know, we're not gourmets. It would be hard not to please us.

The last time I was in Wasington D.C. was the early '70's when I was there for a civil rights march.  I promise to behave myself this time.


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