tim.jagenberg.info » fraces http://tim.jagenberg.info vague but exciting ... Tue, 15 May 2012 21:29:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= First train out of Miami http://tim.jagenberg.info/2004/09/12/first-train-out-of-miami/ http://tim.jagenberg.info/2004/09/12/first-train-out-of-miami/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:00:00 +0000 Tim http://tim.jagenberg.info/?p=25 When the first train after Francis left Miami on Saturday, the tracks towards New Orleans were still damaged. I decided to do the tour I had as a rough shape in my mind the other way round and take it up to Washington DC next.
Though the trip took 26hrs, it was quite entertaining. The first day I met a nice mexican guy in the restaurant on the train. We kept talking about ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ till the late evening when he had to get off. As the seats are quite comfortable I managed to get a fair bit of sleep over the night.
After a simple breakfast in the morning I just enjoyed the nice senery passing by, sometimes playing around with the linux on the laptop.

Arriving at Union Station right in the heart of Washington, it took just a short taxiride to the hostel, which immediatly felt comfy for me. It’s more some kind of shared accomodation with an interesting owner. He spent quite a while in arts and in architecture and so we surfed the net together (free wireless internet in the hostel) looking for interesting housing concepts using shipping containers.

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