SAC to SLC

This should have been posted a couple days ago. My bad.

I’m finally in Utah, after thirty hours of travel.

My second train trip was…unique. A woman traveling with three kids sat in the row in front of me, and I soon got to know the kids very well. By the end of the trip (at four in the morning) they were climbing all over me trying to hit each other, while I did my best to break it up and remain uninjured in the process. I was glad to meet them; they kept the trip very exciting. The train, I decided, is fun because you get to forge some relationships while you travel. The man sitting next to me was a Vietnam veteran on a mission to visit all fifty states. The trip was very beautiful too, riding through the Sierra Nevadas. We had a tour guide for this part of the journey who explained several landmarks as we traveled past them at peak train speed, which was about forty miles per hour. The train was certainly an adventure though, I'm glad I took it.

Laurenne picked me up from the train station at six in the morning. I slept for six hours at her house. With her friend Tommy, we did some rock climbing today in the Upper Cottonwood region. It was a very beautiful spot in the Wasatch mountain range (I think) and the rock was different than anything I've climbed on before.