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| Going back and re-reading this letter, ummmmm..... I don�t know. It�s not what I thought it would be. To me it reads more like a diary than a scenic ride. Sorry, I hope I�m not boring you to death. Well it�s about 10pm. Spokane, WA. coming up in 2 hours. That�s where we meet up with the other part of the train. Hopefully it�s on time. Everybody�s sleeping in my car, so I�ll best do the same. I�ll talk to you in the morning Peggy. Goodnight. Day 5, 8:00am Goodmorning Peggy. Well there they are, Mountains in broad daylight. LOL Just left Whitefish, MT. Were still on time. It�s been a long time since I�ve been here that I forget how short a time we spend here in the Rockies. For the next 4 hours we�ll be slowly making our way through them. You get the feeling that your looking at unspoiled land. Land the way it�s supposed to look. Not very many people up here so the countryside pretty much does what it wants. Were following the Flathead river. It�s so clean I can see the river bed. Like looking through tap water. Were traveling through Glacier National Park. Were on the southern border of the park. It goes all the way up and into Canada. Allot of people come here in the summer months for camping, fishing, hiking, ect... There�s real active glaciers in the mountains up here. I�d love to spend a week or two here. Hell, I could live up here, but the commute would be a killer. LOL 10:05am Wer'e coming out of the mountains now. I can see the Great Plains. Talk about extremes!!! We go from mountains to flat prairie grassed plains in a blink of an eye. Coming out of the Mts. we travel onto and through the Blackfoot Indian reservation. First stop out will be Browing, MT. The car�s all quiet now so I�m going to see if I can take a small cat nap. Talk to you in a bit. 11:20am |
| Just left Shelby, MT. Not as cold as it was coming out. Above freezing anyway. LOL Day 5 is by far the longest day of any 6 day trip. This is the day that I start thinking of home. This is also a 21 hour day for me. It just keeps going and going. You�d think tomorrow would be the longest day of the trip, but no. Tomorrow I�ll be moving all day trying to get the car together for Chicago so the day will go by fast. Today�s the killer. Looking out the window, I see a whole lot of nothing. LOL This land is like one huge field, not a tree in sight. What do people do out here?? 6:20pm It�s been a real quiet day. Everybody�s just been riding along and keeping to themselves. I called home from Havre. My wife says that our ISP has been down for 2 days now. That�s not good. She�s not too happy. She can�t get through on the phone to them either. She calls and just gets a recording telling her that their experiencing tech trouble. And will be back on-line soon. This job sure does come in handy sometimes. LOL I would not want to be at my house today!! LOL I�ve been meaning to D/Lone of the free ISP's.. It would of come in handy for her today. It�s going to be a late night tonight. I have people getting off my car in Fargo, ND at 2am, and again at St. Cloud at 5am. Oh well, I guess I can sleep tomorrow night. Hmmmmm..... Tomorrow night.....home. I haven�t seen my wife or the kids in two weeks now. I miss them. I�ll be home tomorrow night. 9:35pm Just left Minot, ND. Still running on time. Had the chance to call home again. ISP is back up and running so there�s joy and happiness there again. LOL I�m glad I�m not working the coaches this night. We�ve got some real winners there. Pot-bellied, beer drinkin�, scuzz-ball cowboy and friends. They�ve been drinking all day and are now acting stupid. They�ve been cut off at the bar car but it seems at every one of our long stops they have...... |
| gone and found a liquor store and brought there own on the train. Big no-no. Not allowed to bring your own personal liquor into the coaches. They�ve been warned so one more screw up and there gone, off the train. But what�s yet to be determined is with or with out a police escort. LOL They never believe us when we tell them they have to get their bags together because they�re being put off the train. They think were joking. LOL it�s only when they see the cops that they know it�s for real. They will be put in jail overnight and let them out the next morning. And here the kicker, Amtrak will let them back on the next train. 11:15pm Finally, day 5 has ended Peggy. I ready for bed. Got the am-jammies on and everything. LOL Just trying to figure out what time I need to get up. The Conductors will take care of my people getting off in Fargo so I will not need to be up there. But I still have people leaving in ST Cloud, MN so I will need to be up around 4:30am. Tomorrow will as busy day for me but we will be home when it�s over. Goodnight Peggy, see Ya in the AM. Day 6, 6:15am Good morning Peg. I�m working on my 4th cup of jo and I�ve already got 10 of my 20 rooms done. This morning I Rock!!!!! I don�t know what came over me. I�m not a morning person at all!!!! LOL Coming into Minneapolis-St. Paul. Yooooooooo Hooooooooooo....Fantas... where�s are welcome??? Hehehe Were going to be here for about an hour. Were ahead of schedule. I�ve got 2 rooms getting off here. My two druggies are leaving too. I�m sure they�re carrying drugs. Even the bar tender picked up on it the first night out. Young couple, cell phones, Tommy Hilfinger bags, big roll of money, partiers, night owls who keep to there selves. Working with the public for 16 years I have grown a 6th sense that tells me what people are about. You know there �story�. You�ve seen it before and will see it again. LOL There lucky the dog are not with the border patrol guys. Ever see a drug dog find drugs?? They get REAL happy. LOL |
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