Event Date: 28 Apr 2011
Location: New York, United States of America; District of Columbia, United States of America
Penn Station – NY
Union Station – DC
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3:00 AM interstate train from NY to DC. What were we thinking?
After a tiring and eventful few days in NY, the last thing JK and I wanted to do was stay up til the early hours of the morning in order to catch a train. Yet this is what we did. A good concept in theory when we planned our trip months prior (because we wouldn’t have to spend money on an extra night in a hotel) turned out to be not such a good idea in real life with you account for the increase in age and decrease in resilience of the body.
After dinner, we picked up our luggage from the hotel concierge and headed to the Penn Station Amtrack waiting room. Here we took turns sleeping and catching up on correspondence with the rest of the world before sleepily boarding the train and crashing immediately once our bums hit the seat.
I woke up for split seconds as we pulled into each station along the way but had no issues falling immediately back asleep. By the time we reached Union Station and it was actually time to get off, I struggled to get a move on. Only the threat of the train leaving with me still on it gave me the motivation.
Good morning DC.
