Scattered Thoughts . . .

We took a couple of hours out of our weekend to go to one of Lukey's hockey games this past Sunday.  Lukey's team lost the game but it was nice to see him doing what he enjoys. I happened to bump into someone I used to work with at this game which was a complete shock!  As we were leaving the game and passing by the concession, I heard someone call my name.  At first, I didn't recognize him...  partly because it had been so long since we've seen each other, partly because seeing him here at this rink was unexpected and partly because we've both grown quite a bit older and changed a bit.  It turns out his son was on the opposing team playing against Lukey's team.   Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling my best and I was still quite shocked to see him for the few minutes we had together so I was pretty quiet for the very short while we talked.  It was nice to see him though and, hopefully, we'll bump into him again at other games this season.  I'd li...

As I wrote in a previous blog entry, our short trip from our hotel to Cincinnati Union Terminal in the middle of the night was uneventful...  and very quiet.  Catching this train in the middle of the night was a piece of cake.  It was still about 90° outside in the middle of the night but it was nice and quiet with absolutely no logistical problems.   The only remarkable event on this night was that we had to check our large rolling luggage...  four pieces.  There were four of us and we had packed for a two week trip anticipating sweaty clothes everyday so we had quite a bit to pack.  We each had a rolling piece of luggage and a small carry-on bag.  Fortunately, we planned for this possibility (needing to check our big luggage) so had already put everything we might need on the train in our carry-on bags so this was a painless change of plans.   We had already planned for this because we knew that these new Viewliner II train cars h...

After posting this blog entry, I noticed that if you use the photo viewer to view all the photos (Lightbox), then you won't see all the photos.  Lightbox can't display the amount of photos I have in this blog entry so, if you want to see all the photos, then you'll have to scroll down the page through the entire blog entry. __________________________________________________________________ W hile we were in Ohio with our two oldest grandchildren back in June, there were a few places that we really wanted to visit.  One of these places was the Cincinnati Zoo.   We don't have any zoos in Vermont so visiting a zoo was one of our priorities since there is an outstanding zoo in Cincinnati.  Amtrak would drop us off in Cincinnati and this is the city from which we would depart too so we spent a few days in Cincinnati before getting back on the train to head home.  This would allow us some time to visit a few places in Cincinnati before we had to depart on the tra...