It’s amazing what a good night‘s sleep can do for my attitude. I woke up this morning to find my train is 3 hours late and I will probably miss my connection in LA. I’m told Amtrak will put me on another train, but it won’t be on the coast. I would have stay overnight and take a train on Saturday in order to get the coast train. Since I didn’t get the trip insurance, the additional cost would be on me. Now I know why the insurance was so expensive. No decision has to be made now, who knows, a miracle could occur and my train could make up the 3 hours.

I left my bags at the hotel and went out for breakfast. Lindy’s Diner gave me a great one as you can see from the picture.

Then I walked down to the Rio Grand River Trail, walked on it for a short distance and hiked back to the hotel. The train is now 4 hours behind schedule and losing more time every time I check. I should stop checking.

Looking over my upcoming schedule, I have a whole day in couch riding from LA to San Francisco. Rather than be at the mercy of what is on the train, I took a walk to the grocery store and bought a few things to eat. I’m sitting in the train station now, have about 3 hours before the train arrives, but my feet are tired. I could use that foot massage I got in New Orleans.

Train is now 5 hours late. It appears that for every 10 minutes that pass, the train gets 5 minutes later. So it will arrive, hopefully I won’t be asleep and miss it. I’m going to publish this now and update you tomorrow.

It’s tomorrow. I got on the train at 7:45 pm, close to a 5 hour delay. Fortunately, they were still serving dinner. I got paired with Jimmy and Shannon. Jimmy recently lost his lower limbs from sepsis. They’re from New Orleans, and to celebrate Shannon’s birthday, they are taking a train trip along Rt 66, stopping in Chicago, St Louis, Albuquerque and ending in LA to see Jimmy’s daughter. The food was good and we had a great time.