Category: World Tour

World Tour, Day 16/17 Addendum: The Train is Where You Meet People

I’m not a social traveller, especially on the Greyhound. Road trips are peaceful affairs, with quiet conversation, music, and audiobooks or radio shows. For the most part, I listen to whatever’s on the stereo and stare out the window at the changing landscape. On the Greyhound, I’ve been either putting in earplugs so I could sleep or putting on headphones to listen to music. On the train, though, I ended up having a feeling it’d be a good idea to

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World Tour, Day 16: YOU GUYS I WENT ON A TRAIN!

Background: Before I started figuring out the transportation aspect of this trip, someone I was talking to about it got all excited about Amtrak. Which meant I got all excited about Amtrak and then looked up how their prices compared to Greyhound. They were more expensive, so they weren’t going to be my main form of transportation. But I didn’t want to rule them out, so I thought I’d treat myself for one leg of my trip. Eventually, I settled

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World Tour, Day 15: Doing the Thing I Fear

Today, my brother brought me out to Yuba river, which looks like this: It’s much more impressive than that picture suggests. Here’s one with F’kir, for scale: And one with my feet, because I can: We clambered along the rocks on the nearest side of the river for a while until we got to a gap that F’kir jumped over easily, but which I stopped at. I have these wee little legs, you see, and I didn’t trust my footing

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World Tour, Day 14: What Happens When You Drive Your Brother’s Car

Fun fact: You can drive with a Canadian drivers license in most states in the US. Other fun fact: I wasn’t anticipating doing any driving until I reached Virginia. Third fun fact: The dust a U-Haul truck kicks up on a dirt road can really mess with visibility if you happen to be following behind it. My oldest brother is F’kir Eldercake, who makes music under the name Dream Shovel, and today I was visiting him in Nevada City. Back

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