Friday, March 25, 2005
Fascination with train routes ?!? What the...?
After my rare experience riding Amtrak trains I decided to stay up later then I should (how do I get obsessed with these things?) and figure out how I could comfortably ride from Chicago to some remote location, like say Burlington, VT. [Laura, in case you don't know that's where a good deal of my high school buddies live now]. If time or sanity wasn't an issue I could leave Chicago at 7:30pm spend the night on the train, spend the following night in Springfield, MA, then arrive at 8:30pm at the Burlington station after leaving Springfield at 3:30 or so. Total cost for this theoretical travel is 218 bucks, round trip, with no hotel costs for Springfield (where I would transfer trains) on the way back to Chicago. Burlingtonians, if one were to enjoy riding trains and spending the night in Springfield, and if one were not to like driving long distances in cars that much, and if one would like to take advantage of Amtrak before the Bush administration eliminates it, would a train trip there for that cost be worth the savings for plane travel and the extra leg room and scenery I could get from train travel. I am just curious. I'm not sure if Chris Johnston knows about my blog, but this sounds like a perfect geeky question for him.
Yes, I should go to bed now, thanks for reading my thoughts.
Yes, I should go to bed now, thanks for reading my thoughts.
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Hey Jonah,
Too bad that if you made this hypothetical trip to Burlinton, VT, I will no longer be here. Maybe you should take that into consideration. :)
In response to your question regarding Tina, I am in fact calling llamas, Tinas. This is because of Napoleon Dynamite, which you should definitely see if you have not yet. There is a llama with the name Tina in it. But it's very fun to yell lines from the movie at llamas while referring to them as Tina.
So, please, tell me your story about llamas! I really hope it has to do with llama spit.
Too bad that if you made this hypothetical trip to Burlinton, VT, I will no longer be here. Maybe you should take that into consideration. :)
In response to your question regarding Tina, I am in fact calling llamas, Tinas. This is because of Napoleon Dynamite, which you should definitely see if you have not yet. There is a llama with the name Tina in it. But it's very fun to yell lines from the movie at llamas while referring to them as Tina.
So, please, tell me your story about llamas! I really hope it has to do with llama spit.
# posted by 
: 10:56 PM
: 10:56 PM
This is a response to Angie:
I guess I"m confused with what every one is doing because I thought maybe you were living up in Burlington now. Serves me right for not keeping in touch enough.
Anyway, my llama story is not a personal one, and it doesn't have to do with spit, sorry. They are just some fun llama facts that I didn't know about. My parents live in New Mexico now, and they have talked with some farmers who keep llamas in their fields and gained some new insights into llamas (in New Mexico, llamas are pronounced like the Spanish - "Y-ahmahs".
Fun Llama Fact #1: They don't just poop randomly all over but have a communal place when they do their business.
Fun Llama Fact #2: I thought this was awesome. I'm sure Llamas serves some useful purpose (fur, I think) but a main reason they are kept in desert ranches is because Llamas HATE coyotes. You got a herd of sheep that you don't want coyotes to eat, and you place a couple of llamas in the field, not only will those llamas stand their ground and stare down any invaders, if their a coyote they will actually run up to these coyotes and kick them! I just think that's cool. A coyote comes along and the llama's like "Yo, you want a piece of this! I'll kick your freakin' canine ass!". Just imagine it. Funny.
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I guess I"m confused with what every one is doing because I thought maybe you were living up in Burlington now. Serves me right for not keeping in touch enough.
Anyway, my llama story is not a personal one, and it doesn't have to do with spit, sorry. They are just some fun llama facts that I didn't know about. My parents live in New Mexico now, and they have talked with some farmers who keep llamas in their fields and gained some new insights into llamas (in New Mexico, llamas are pronounced like the Spanish - "Y-ahmahs".
Fun Llama Fact #1: They don't just poop randomly all over but have a communal place when they do their business.
Fun Llama Fact #2: I thought this was awesome. I'm sure Llamas serves some useful purpose (fur, I think) but a main reason they are kept in desert ranches is because Llamas HATE coyotes. You got a herd of sheep that you don't want coyotes to eat, and you place a couple of llamas in the field, not only will those llamas stand their ground and stare down any invaders, if their a coyote they will actually run up to these coyotes and kick them! I just think that's cool. A coyote comes along and the llama's like "Yo, you want a piece of this! I'll kick your freakin' canine ass!". Just imagine it. Funny.
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