Train Ride II

What is there to do on a four hour train ride?

We talked a lot. I rarely get to see my nephew without lots of other family around and all kinds of interruptions to our conversations. When we ran out of talk he read and I took bad photos out the window of the train. And then we talked some more. And he showed me the chess game on his Kindle. He showed me some other amazing games and I became dizzy at the speed of some of them.

Our lunch "basket" - bananas, yogurt, pudding, sandwiches, drinks, Funyuns...

We also had lunch and I took a short nap. This lovely child swears that I did not snore, but perhaps he was being his genuinely kind self. In any case, we did see many sights outside the sometimes fast, sometimes slow moving train.

We saw other trains speed by:

This one looked empty.

This one seemed full of gravel.

We saw rivers:

Narrow and deep

Wide

And most suffering from the drought

We saw fields:

Some with crops...

Some with farmers...

Some filled with sunflowers (I failed to get a good photo, but they were lovely)

And some with dirt just being turned...

We saw vehicles:

Some stopped for us in town...

Others had to wait at crossings in the country...

Some seemed to be racing us down the road...

We kept hearing a train whistle in the distance and I would think, "A train is coming." But then I realized it was us. It was our train whistle.

It was a great trip.

We know the view might have been nicer had we not missed the wildflowers, but we had to take the opportunity to ride when school was out and there was time to head north to "Cow Town" for a short visit.

Once there we were picked up at the station and then escorted around town by a long-time friend and Fort Worth native. We saw parts of the historic city and the Cultural District. We ate hamburgers (one of the best I have ever eaten) and talked.

We swam in the hotel pool. We watched some TV. And the aunt fell asleep while the nephew saw and heard fireworks after the symphony performance in the park a few miles away.

Tomorrow Glen Rose and parts south...