Orkeed

We’ve finally made it to San Francisco after a 52 hour trip via train. The train ride was extremely satisfying and an incredible journey through the prairies of Wyoming, and the Rockies. However, we also saw a lot of nothing during the trip. America really does have a lot of desert and tons of antelope, cows, but no bears, well, any that we could see. We had plenty of leg room and our chairs reclined, plus there even was an observation car, where from floor to ceiling there was window. The staff on the train gave us some really good commentary as we travelled through some points of interest.
 
We thought we packed enough food for 52 hours, but we ran out after 32 hours, so we had to order the least expensive food, which was to microwave our own bagels. By the time we arrived in San Francisco, we were famished, so we found an Internet cafe’ and searched for a really good restaurant in San Francisco, we weren’t disappointed with one of the suggestions and it wasn’t too far from where we were!
 
After filling up our stomachs, we went in search of a hostel, the one we found that had some room, was really sweet, we actually had a door to our room, nice. It didn’t have a window, but the privacy door was a welcome site. After using the hostels facilities, we headed to Chinatown and stopped at a place where we could get a fortune cookie, mine read that an unexpected event will shortly take place and will make my life more exciting. I was already pretty stoked about being in San Francisco, so I really couldn’t imagine something happening that could possible be more exciting.
 
While walking around a bit more, a dog came up to me and dropped a flatten soccer ball at my feet. He looked exactly like my dog ‘Blake’ back home in Ireland. I wonder if that was the unexpected event? We then walked miles and miles across the city to the Haight area, then to the Golden Gate Bridge and found a park that had some rad skateboard festival.
 
So far, our across the America trip on a train, has been the highlight of my life, it’s so hard to describe that seeing how other people live, work and play, just how it really made me feel like I was a part of the whole.