21 June 2012

Left Essex Junction (where the Burlington area train station is located) at 9 am aboard Amtrak’s The Vermonter.  Due to the 90°+ outside air temperature potentially warping the tracks, the train was restricted to 30 mph for much of the trip to New York, where we finally arrived 12 interminable hours later.  And we were lucky!  There was a trackside fire in Connecticut that stopped all train movements… just after we went through!  The rest of the trip to Washington was at normal speeds, but we didn’t get to Union Station until 1 am… which is an hour after Washington’s Metro (subway system) closes down for the night.  Consequently, Chree had to drive into downtown DC to retrieve my sore butt sorry self.  We finally arrived home at 2 o’clock, three hours later than expected when I booked the tickets.