"Living in a Tiny Roomette from NYC to Seattle on an Amtrak train"
Chloé and sometimes Ludvig
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IkBuKiQW4ho&si=zc45HHhzJwsN271y
"Rode Amtrak's Coast Starlight for 35 Hours..."
Chloé and sometimes Ludvig
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ISRl3gYnzOw&si=RA65yFP-96-tvtTj
I feel quite a lot of gratitude that I got to watch these train videos because I haven't traveled on trains for a long time, but I did when I was younger, and in particular, when I was a child, I went on a very special trip with relatives and my grandmother, and it was great to access some of that consciousness again. I was so open and curious about things.
It was a really new experience to travel on the train for such a long journey. I had traveled by coach in the past, but this time there were roomettes. I got to sleep in a bunk and listen to stories about what things were like in the olden days, and watch the sun rise from the train window. Sometimes we ate in the dining car, and I tried a bite of pecan pie because my grandmother convinced me to, and discovered that I actually liked the filling. On that long train ride from Washington State to New Mexico, and then to Michigan, at one point we made a particular stop in Barstow. Because the president of the United States was traveling through town and it held up the train. And then we had to take a bus to San Bernardino and catch another train. These were strange names to me, and now I live close to one of those cities. We traveled in roomettes for most of the way, but after the train was delayed, we got a bigger room with a shower in it. But then I discovered, maybe we liked the roomettes more. There were grumpy times but they were also really great times. I'm so glad I got to take the trip. I saw so much new and interesting scenery out the window. This wasn't like now when you can just look up things on the internet. It was really new to see things like a "plateau" in the southwest.
Oh yes, and that was the first time I started to write in a journal, wasn't it? I think it was. It's too bad I don't have that one anymore! Yes, I wrote journal entries of that trip. I described things and I really wish I could have saved that one but it's gone. But nevertheless, that was the first time I tried to journal in this life.
And since thinking about the train trip has been feeling so healing to me recently, I'm like, did I move here so that I would be able to access that memory? Well, what if I did subconsciously move here because of that? That nice time of being young and open to possibility is still accessible. And I got to access it when I was going through a particularly difficult time on multiple levels, physically, mentally emotionally spiritually.
Once upon a time, I was young and I didn't know the horrors of menstrual misery or panic attacks or...anyways, let's not go into it all right now.
I'm glad I got to access a more innocent time again! And in a way, that's the really truthful time.
I also got to enjoy some of my other memories of train rides that I took at other times in my life, but I guess the strongest one is that long childhood trip.
Just feeling much better tonight!
It's really nice.
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