Arrived 4:38p from Detroit. Waiting for Melissa. Going to bar to kill time.

The beautiful thing about trains is that they let me see all the parts of America I'm not interested in. Not interested enough to visit at any rate. Now I'll get to say that I've at least seen Battlecreek and Kalamazoo without suffering the indignity of actually going there. We almost didn't make the train, truth be told. We were held up at the border for a time by America's finest. Apparently they couldn't believe Americans would spend that much time on Amtrak. ...

Up at 5am, even though the train was nearly an hour behind. I wasn't much able to sleep with people coming in and out of the car all night. But I was up on adrenaline alone. Couldn't say the same for Kat. Connected to Detroit by bus at Toledo. Got thru Detroit-Windsor tunnel without a hitch. Might have freaked out the security guard though. Wearing my floppy dog eared hat and talking a mile a minute. Fully expected baggage check, but they just took our pp's and m...