The Great Midwest

Well, it's been a great trip, but once I go to sleep for the evening, that'll basically be it for my trip on the Southwest Chief - I'll wake up to an early breakfast at 5:30 PDT and ride to the end of the line by 9AM PDT.

I just don't have the upstream out here to post pictures now, but once I am in LA, I will have two hours and hopefully a strong EvDO signal. If I'm lucky I will find a place to sit, chill, and upload some photos. I'm back on CDMA already after we departed from Flagstaff, AZ.

I observe that despite my trepidation about air pressure at heights, I have hardly noticed the changes as we've gone cross-country through the mountains of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. We were at 7500 ft. at one point in Raton, NM and I was fine. Hmm...

I've been eating well. I tried a garden burger and liked it. Unfortunately the meals are the same every day for each meal (they correctly assume that you won't be on the train for enough days to get completely sick of them), but I've enjoyed fruit, cereal, milk, a garden burger, and stir fry - breakfast, lunch and dinner, respectively.

This has been a great trip. I'm about 75% done now. The Coast Starlight should be a quickie relative to the SW Chief and even the Capitol Ltd. Hope I sleep soundly...