Friday, October 19, 2012

Trip to Chicago 2

During the night, we passed Washington state and Idaho state.
Second day, we run Montana state. To me, Montana state was massive broad and I felt that America is really huge. The train didn't stop much. Just run and run all the day, but we were still in Montana state.
I usually stayed at view train. Their seat is really comfortable, and during the afternoon they held Trails & Rails.
In Empire builder, at the view train, has a program named 'Trails & Rails' http://www.amtrak.com/trails-rails-heritage-appreciation-during-your-train-ride
Trails & Rails is an innovative partnership program between the National Park Service and Amtrak, providing rail passengers with educational opportunities that foster an appreciation of a selected region's natural and cultural heritage. It also renews the long tradition of connecting railroads with National Parks. -From Amtrak.com
The man who is in the middle of this photo is Trails & Rails volunteer.
And this photo is my table :) They gave me maps
At Trails & Rails, who talk to passengers is volunteer. However they had great knowledge! History, geography, another things, and even they have good sense at humor. I learned a lot of things about this route and Montana state's nature from them. At that time, I'm not sure that I understood perfectly, but I think I got 70% :p.

Sleeping Native American
This photo is about Sleeping Native American. Well it's not good photo, but you can imagine. If you move more right side, it looks sleeping man. Can't find? Okay let me explain about this photo. The right side is head, and his hand is gathering in middle, and the left part is his foot. Can you imagine? I thought it's brilliant.

By the way, my next seat was a guy :9 At each passenger's upside seat, we have a tag which shows where is this passenger's destination. His destination was Chicago too. However I'm shy of strangers, and maybe he also like me. So we didn't talk each other. It was so funny. When the night, we stuck both side's end to don't touch each other. Finally every night we fall apart to another empty seat. And then morning, we were back our seat LOL.

Be continued.

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