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Day 39: Death Cab For Stupid
"Hi, I'm Rick. I'm 17 and I have A.D.D." - this is how the person who was going to be sitting next to be for a 2 days train journey intorduced himself. I knew it was going to be a long journey. The journey didn;t even start that well. After a very early start, I arrived at the train station to find out that my train was already delayed by 2 hours because it was 9 hours late getting in the night before because some kid was playing on the tracks and the train hit him. They had to keep the train where it was for several hours to clean everything up - literally I am guessing. Sadly this kind of thing is common on U.S. rail tracks as they don't have the same crossings as England and most of the time in little towns there is no crossings at all.
Rick was just your average 17 year old kid - but on turbo mode. I had to go to the lounge to get away from him. The lounge car has a tour guide in it that tells you all about what you can see around you.
The seats are pretty comfy - loads of leg room and they recline enough so you can sleeo well- hopefully. We travelled south through Washington state abd we are now somewhere in oregan.
Met a girl from Bristol who is pretty much doing the same trip as me, but she has finished now.
When I went back to my chair, Rick asked me if I didn't like him. I said he was loud and he moved seats. There is no time to be nice on this journey. Win!. I can still hear him though.....
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