Thursday, August 25, 2011

Trains and Tracks

Salutations from the rain and wet District of Columbia! Here is my account of my train ride back! Here's a photo I took of my parents at lunch. Can't you see the family resemblance? Err...guess I should have used my flash here...whoops!

Here are some photos from my train journey, which, I'm sorry to report, was nothing like the Hogwarts Express!
Pretty much all my experience with trains comes from television. Being on a train wasn't like a 1940's movie either. But, hey look! Construction cones!
Cozy chairs. Ps. I think this is around the point the people behind me started to worry about me and why I was taking pictures of the train.
Hello luggage. Please don't fall on my head if we take a turn. Thanks!
Anyone else wanna sing? Took the midnight train going anywheerrreee....

Hello electricity epicenter, keep doing what you do (although I'm not really sure what that is, I'm sure people appreciate it).
Highway down yonder.

Mostly I saw rundown buildings and graffiti. I think graffiti is pretty swell so welcome to my photo montage:
I wonder if it's hard to pick your graffiti name, I struggle with name picking. Getting a blog name was hard enough, and I don't think Katie Lady Loo carries a lot of street cred (I'm working on that).
This was supposed to be a picture of a passing Acela train, turns out they are very very fast. I blinked and they were already in Arkansas. Acela must be french for "Does not mess around."
I peeked for gators here but didn't find any.
Nature, isn't she grand?
Oh hello, I think I met your cousin earlier.
I will call this one "Peeking out the window." Deep! Intellectually stimulating!
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Only a few more stops to go! Woohoo!
 By the end of the trip the car was pretty empty so I could stretch out and live large.
More electricity looking things, they are everywhere!
Rundown train cars, I hoped this wasn't foreshadowing for the rest of my journey! There was a snack cart but there is no telling how long we could live off that for. If I had to survive in the wild I think I would be ready to give up the ghost the moment my cell phone battery died. That's the sad truth.
And I made it!!! I was lugging my suitcase at this point so no more pictures. (Just fyi my arm is sore this morning! I gotta start pumping some iron!)
Any day that ends up at Shake Shack is a good day in my back. Welcome back to DC self!
I'm wearing jeggings and I think I understand what love is now. They are so comffffyyy!
Here I am being a ninja, it's a hobby.

I tried to take some outside pictures in the POURING rain! I scurried back for an umbrella three seconds after these were taken.

42 comments:

  1. Looks like a fun ride :D
    I used to take train pretty much every day to get to school.

    Thanks for your kind comment (:
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    xx Brigita

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  2. I love train rides! your photos make me wish I was traveling with you! Have fun and safe travels! xo

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  3. looking cute with your high bun!:)

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  4. lovely pics. i also love grafitti!! theres something just really real about it...xxx

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  5. great blog!

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  6. Such a strange train, definitely looks like a plane :)

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  7. Cool photos, I really like the sortof urban documentary vibe ;)
    x

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  8. I love travelling in a train! :)
    And I love your top, it's so cute!

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  9. i love train travel, and your little ballerina bun is adorable

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  10. HAH, if only taking the train to school was like boarding the Hogwarts Express..

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  11. Fab post love the images?
    An there is something so exciting about train journeys feels like your on a little adventure.
    Love your blog.

    Abigail x

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  12. Ah yes DC Graffiti + you gotta love it.

    Wyetha

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  13. Your outfit is so chanel! Love it! :D

    Have a Good Day!

    David

    VirtuallyStunning.blogspot.com

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  14. ugh you east coasters always make me so jealous with your shake shacks.

    LOVE the graffiti shots you took.

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  15. I still find trains uber sexy ;) Looks like a good time was had! Let's be ninjas together? xxAnisa

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  16. I wish they would make flash for my cell phone :p

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  17. That's great photography! You are cute! :D

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  18. I really enjoyed reading this post! I liked your comments ont he pictures you have shot! And you look great even in the rain!
    Xx
    http://dontcallmefashionblogger.blogspot.com

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  19. this makes me miss all the train rides when travelling through europe a couple years back.

    xx from hong kong :)
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  20. wow looks like you had lotsa fun there :D
    X
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  21. Very much like your post. Looks like a great ride.

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  22. Hi ninja! :) I love trains, they are really retro :) Except those new ones :) They are not retro at all.. I would make new fast trains that also look retro!

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  23. I wish I travelled as much as you! These photos are great and I love your hair!

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  24. I like our European train stations way better! :)

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  25. love your top! i would like to be on a plane right NOW!!!!

    xx
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  26. so so cute! LOVE IT :)

    xx

    natalieoffduty.blogspot.com

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  27. I hate trains! But it seems you enjoyed yourself :)

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  28. Love the post! These are some great pictures! I really feel like i was there with you haha :) xo

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  29. I lovee trains haha, I mean train photos :)
    Nice photos~

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  30. Thank you for taking us on this journey. The shots are brilliant. Hope you are not being effected my the Hurricane. Xxxx

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  31. cool graffiti pics -- i havent been on the amtrak is soooo long.

    Chic on the Cheap

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  32. I don't really like trains, maybe because it was a time I had to take one everyday & it was pretty boring. I prefer bus, car or anything with wheels.

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  33. Did you take Amtrak back to DC?

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  34. I love taking the train. Great pictures today!

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  35. great article, love the pics! ♥

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  36. these pictures are awesome!
    Daisy
    http://invisableone.blogspot.com
    xx

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