Cold train rides, officers, and hostels.
Well, so far I've had quite the experience... I write to you guys from my hostel in Toronto, Canada!! I arrived here late yesterday evening after quite a travel...I left my house around 7pm, and we drove to New Jersey to visit my grandparents..... then we drove to the 30th Street Station in downtown Philadelphia, where I hopped a train to NYC, arrive in NYC at 1:50am. I figured it'd be ok to just roam the city and just relax, but as it turns out, as a first time traveller, I think I packed wayyyy to much ^^ so it was quite the pits dragging my suitcase, backpack and laptop bag around NYC, so i just walked for two blocks and came back!!! then I just sat in the Amtrak-waiting room for my train which left at 7:15am... While here I was 'harassed' (ok, quite the over-exaggeration, but...) by an officer, err, amtrak-rent-a-cop, who claimed my feet were on the seat. Yes, they were at first, but when the guard asked me to put them down, I did! And then I crossed my legs, and apparently he thought i had them on the seat again when he walked by, so he says to me "BOY! Apparently you don't know how to listen, do you???! That man told you to put your feet down, now didn't he?" "Yes, but my.." "I don't care boy, how old are you?" "18" "then you're damn old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, don't you?!" "yes sir, I'm sorry" "and you're also old enough for me to eject you from this station. so if i walk by one more time with your feet on the seat, i'ma gunna eject you from this here station!"
... yea, fun times.
As i finally made it to 7 am when they posted the gate my train will be at, I was rudely ridiculed by a couple from the UK, they were mistaken as they thought i jumped the 'queue' and they also flipped out at another group of people... they said with their accents: "Damn americans, you think you can just cut the queue, don't ya?", and all they got in response was a gawk and a remark. Welcome to america! After that the train ride was long, and very cold... and i got stuck in a car which was outdated, and full of anxious, obnoxious, and any other -xious word you can think of...
I'll just write a new post about my treks through Toronto!!
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
