10.26.10: canada, part I {the eleven-hour train ride with occasional haiku}

1118h:

met a nice dc couple taking a vacation identical to ours, right down to the non-plan and false start three years ago. they smoke; are they us in the past? the sight-seeing dome car is open, just in time for the backyards of albany.

cafe car coffee,
bird's-eye view of albany.
no rock-eaters yet.

we're told montreal's punk bars are on rue st. laurent.

1129h:
it's schenectady,
the city that lights the world!
too early for wine.

1236h:
yupster uncloaking:
an amarone, vintage
backgammon, and shame.

1346h:
ticonderoga:
halfway point! the leaf-peeping
is epic, like dune.

1415h:
joe pours wine in my shoe.

1651h:
customs. our seeded crackers are not confiscated. the earnest man behind us explains to the border agents how tamarind candy is made. ("it's no longer a fruit. it's been boiled, not by me.")

1737h:
canada appears to be phoning it in re: the picturesque. bah.

1758h:
sun just set. horizon afire in a mildly scary way.

7 comments:

bigBANG studio said...

So now we all know: the best way to detfruit the tamarind is to boil, transmute into candy form, then eat whilst crossing northern territories.

LOVE your haiku'd journey.

rachel (heart of light) said...

Seriously with this? Way too amazing a trip for me to read about in my office, whilst wishing to be almost anywhere else.

Also, I have an odd love of coffee from cafe cars (or vending machines) even when it is terrible. It tastes of adventure.

Celia said...

i can never get joe to take the train.  
damn buses! 

Amanda said...

Your HAIKU SKILLS light the world (as does your clever caboose-photo description).
Consider the world LIT.

Amanda said...

(A train, a train, a train, a train.)

jamie said...

the problem with this post is this.

i usually catch up on blogs at work, on breaks.

my work does not like your blog. i can not visit it more than 1x a day, sometimes not even that. and so, if i try and follow your picture links then go back to reading the post, i fail.

that said I WANT A CANADIAN TRAIN RIDE WITH BACKGAMMON AND WINE (in shoe or otherwise) AND DOME CAR.

jamie said...

(that is why it has taken me so long to comment)