Life on a Train

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Our home for 88 hours!
Life on a train is not very comfortable. The ladders are useless, the beds are leathery and lumpy, and random people burst into your compartment in the middle of the night. Your legs fall asleep from doing nothing, and when people open the doors at the end of the cars, you can smell people smoking. Ugh! The dining car was 6 cars away. We went there a lot because it had air conditioning. We were boiling in our compartment and couldn’t play cards together. We could not shower, so we were disgusting when we got off.


To stay busy I sketched and doodled. Sometimes I listened to my Ipod but I had to use it sparingly so as not to run down the battery. We played cards a lot. I lost all of the pinochle games but won several games of rummy. I also read the Kindle and was wishing that we had more than one. I am reading “Emma” by Jane Austen. It is more challenging than what I usually read because there many words and phrases with which I am unfamiliar. Often I stared out the window thinking and watching the land roll by. The scenery was beautiful, with big patches of flowers everywhere, and 80 million birch trees. We saw a couple of rivers, but no moose or water birds.

I do not like living on a train. However, we were able to get off the train a couple times a day and buy ice cream, soda, M&Ms, and water. We got to see a lot of the Russian countryside and it was an interesting way to travel. It was better than an overnight plane or bus because there were beds and there was room get up and walk around. Still, no showering was tough.

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