In My Life

Last night we had our first accident. Both of us were having trouble getting to sleep so I figured I’d move back one row to a spare seat on the other side of the aisle, where I could still see Glenys and she could stretch out on two seats. Eventually I got to sleep, but when I woke a couple of hours later I found Glenys missing. First, I went downstairs to the toilets and called out her name: no answer. I thought it best to go back to my original seat and wait for her to return. What I didn’t know was that she had moved my laptop up on to my seat with a few other things. In the dark I could see the other things, but against the dark blue seat I didn’t see my black MacBook, and I sat on it. I thought nothing of it at the time, but later when I turned it on I saw that the screen was broken – half blank, the other half a mix of OK viewing, streaks of blue and red lines, and floating pixels.
Meanwhile Glenys returned – she had headed in the wrong direction to find the bathroom and ended up in another carriage. That’s not hard to do in daylight, let alone in the dark. We often head off to the dining car in the wrong direction; and to find your seats you’ve got to be alert.
I am hoping the travel insurance will cover the repairs or replacement of the MacBook, but there may not be too many photos on the blog until that is worked out. Yesterday’s treasure trove of pictures is safe, I can see them, just can’t upload them to the blog because that part of the screen is blank.
God willing, by 4.00pm this afternoon we will be in San Francisco after 72 hours of travel. Tonight we will see to it that we sleep like well-fed babies with the help of a Melatonin tablet. It promotes sleep and wards off jet lag. Except for getting to Los Angeles next Tuesday, this could be our last train trip before we catch the plane back to Australia.
This morning we’ve been through moonlike deserts in Nevada, and now we are back in mountaintop evergreen forests after passing through beautiful Lake Tahoe. It’s all like the Oregon scenery we came across back in Week One. Soon we will cross the border into California.

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