Blog: ipickmynose

train tracks: a personal essay on a train tip across america

May 23, 2008, 1:50am ipickmynose
It's not uncommon for Americans to go over to Europe and ride the rails all over but most haven't ridden this nation's rails extensively. From September 7 to 10, 2003, for three and a half days I rode trains from Boston to Emeryville, changing trains once, in Chicago. I moved to California on those trains. I had known Boston as home for four years and Pittsburgh before that. Three thousand miles away, the Bay Area was almost a complete unknown. It was to be a time of new friends, new living arrangements, new streets, a new school, [...]
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