Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon South Bend, Indiana Room 5, car 2901 at the junction of Eastern and Central Time Outside the train with his family is a young boy I encountered about 4:00 a.m. with his head down in the toilet. He looks better now, smiling and happy to be on friendly ground. The train […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon May 30th, toward evening Capitol Limited, traveling through the Cumberland Gap We passed Cumberland, West Virgina 15 minutes ago. The train stopped near the Union Rescue Mission. Nearby a man with a sleeveless t-shirt, a gut and a gray beard shrugged. Beside him a four year old boy with no shirt […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Savannah Amtrak Station, waiting on the Silver Meteor which the stationmaster said will be 20 minutes late. After leaving the rental car to the tender mercies of the Alamo cleaners, I took a taxi from the airport to the Amtrak station. In the process I rode on early 20th century technology […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Acela Lounge, Washington, D.C. Leg two of the trip begins in about two hours, the Capitol Limited to Chicago. This is, again, a sleeper. The first few hours in daylight will take us through Maryland, West Virginia and into Pennsylvania. As night comes, we’ll travel through western Pennsylvania and Ohio, reaching […]
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May 16, 2009 Beltane Waning Flower Moon The Capitol Limited Somewhere outside Cumberland, Maryland 9:30 a.m. EST Slept last night very well. Early to bed around 10p.m. Tired from early rising and a full day of travel. The train rocked me to sleep as lightning flashed across the northern sky. I went to bed in […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon I’m going to help Kate take down the garage sale. Then, if it has not started raining, I’ll move yet more daylilies. Daylilies are the plant that goes on giving. They will be here long after we are, in fact, they may be our most permanent legacy. As the date of […]
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Beltane Full Flower Moon A week from tonight I will be asleep or almost so on an outbound train from Chicago to Washington, D.C. After several hours during the day on Saturday in D.C., the train for Savannah leaves Union Station, arriving around 6:30 a.m. the next day. Slow travel seems to fit with the […]
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