kartooner

Tonight I begin my trek to The Windy City to cel­e­brate my brother’s Naval Boot Camp graduation.

This will be my first trip on a train, let alone an Amtrak train. From those that I’ve talked to about train expe­ri­ences in gen­eral, they’ve all said the same thing — long, cold and quiet. From this bit of infor­ma­tion I can’t help but imag­ine that I’ll be trav­el­ing in an over­size sar­dine can.

I’ve equipped myself with my trusty Game­boy Advance (with The Leg­end of Zelda: Four Swords), an issue of Enter­tain­ment Weekly and a pil­low. Here’s hop­ing that the com­part­ment is a sleep­ing one because we won’t arrive in Chicago until 10:40am the next morn­ing — which means plenty of time for some mul­ti­player Zelda via the con­nec­tion cord.

Chicago, here I come.