Goodnight, Oppo

"cabarne4" (cabarne4) 04/19/2014 at 23:52 • Filed to: None

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I'm sure you're all sick of hearing of my train adventure by now (if you haven't heard of it, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) so I'll keep this post short and sweet (mostly because I'm a little bit drunk and a lot of bit tired).

Got into Kansas City at 9:30pm. Dropped my bags and literally ran across the terminal, out the door, and a mile down the road to a liquor store. Shout out to Royal Liquor! Grabbed three 6-packs and an opener, and speed-walked back to the terminal. By the way, the terminal in Kansas City is absolutely beautiful. I'll post pictures in my morning update (that's right. You heard me. There's going to be a morning update).

It's 10:52pm right now, and the train is literally just pulling away from the station. I've got enough of a buzz going to sleep comfortably. Goodnight Oppo!

Leadbull > cabarne4 04/20/2014 at 00:47

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Sweet crap, how much alcohol can one consume whilst being alert enough to board trains on time?

cabarne4 > Leadbull 04/20/2014 at 09:50

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I'm highly functional when drunk. I'm just amazed I could type a couple paragraphs without making a typo!

I only had 2 transfers to make — one was in St. Louis (got in way early in the morning, basically woke up, got breakfast, and got off the train), where I had a half day layover (plenty of time to catch the next train). The hard one was Kansas City. Drank a good amount on the train, only had an hour, and wanted to go buy beer at a store ($10 / 6 pack is much, MUCH better than $7 / bottle). Luckily I'm in decent shape, nearest liquor store was a mile away. Ran all the way there, speed walked back to the station. Got back with plenty of time to move all the newly acquired beers into my bags (they don't care, but it's easier for me to carry them that way) and board the train. As I still had a pretty healthy buzz going, I just went straight to bed after posting that.

Woke up this morning somewhere in Kansas, had breakfast. We're in Colorado now, though we're only cutting through the corner before headed south to New Mexico. Probably won't start drinking again until Albuquerque. It's not even 8 am (as I'm writing this — internet just lost signal again, so probably won't be able to post it until later), totally not appropriate to be drinking. Keep an eye out for my next post, I'll be writing it shortly.