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Published: January 25th 2008
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LA So Larry woke me up at midnight and i got stuff my together and Julie drove me and Larry across to Maricopa and we headed out and chatted in the car and passed a big Casino and resort called Wild Horse and eventually got to Maricopa station and it was better than Kingman station, although it was like two glorified portakabins. Larry and Julie sat with me for a while and i had a bit of a panic as i could not find my ipod in any of my bags and eventually i found it in my daysack later on in the train.
While we there Julie got hold of some Amtrak brochures as she was considering using them for another trip, after while Larry and Julie headed out as they both had to be up early and so we said our goodbyes and they headed off and i still had time to kill and so i attempted to book my ticket from San Fransisco and the guy could only get me on a crazy way out routing different from the leg i was taking to San Fran, he suggested i take the routing he got and see if i
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Eventually the train turne up and as per previous occasions me and the other passengers had to wait on the freezing cold platform waiting for them to swap staff and generally faff about for like ten mins.
I eventually got on and found a seat and went about the process of trying to get some sleep, which is difficult and an ordeal on the amtrak, if your short and can sleep through anything then your good to go.
I finally drift of and get woken up by a boarder guard asking were i am from and were i am going to, apparently another passenger said they came on three times, but i was only woken once which was good as i got virtually zippo sleep, i eventually got up and rembered to take my malaria pills again as i have to start a week before i get down to Central America, i had some dried fruit and Oreos for breakfast....such a healthy diet.....lol.
I then took some more of those alkseltzer tabs for my cold and a multivitiamin, as per my last train ride to LA the train was
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The bus eventually turned up and it was a nice ish bus, better than a greyhound bus and it was over cast and warm in LA and i fell alseep and 30 mins or so later i woke up and it was snowing and the bus was driving through snow storm and i though wow snow in Californa? and a little later it cleared to rain and rain lasted all the way to San fran.
So the bus got to Bakersfield and i got on the train and found a free seat and had a girl opposite me who prooceeded to scowl and use a cell phone for texting constantly till she got off at Stockton and she was replaced by a chubby girl a feww seats down who constantly talked loudly for ages on her cell and she was even louder then the loudest setting on my ipod.....jeezzz
I
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The was an amtrak stop and the main ferry building and so i decided to go outside the main terminal as i thought my host Kerri would go there and after freezing my ass off for 30 mins i wondered back to Amtrak bus stop and Kerri was parked up there.....lol.
She was there with some couchsurfing friends and she arranged to meet them later and we did introductions and headed back to Kerri's place, Kerri is a nurse and does 3 month temp postions and is orignally from Jersey and travels around for each job.
Kerri showed me around and then we went out and met Galen an Eric and i had a strong long island ice tea and we all chatted for a while and then Eric went and Galen,Kerri and me decided to carry on drinking at Kerri's place and Galen was not sober and neither was Kerri and as i had only had one drink,
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LA i moved his car and it was my first time in an automatic, we survied unscathed apart from when i tried to get a piggy back offf Kerri and then Galen tried to carry all of us and we fell, Kerri went to her apartment and i went with Galen to get mixers at the 7/11 store and we picked up burritos aswell.
We went back and i drank vodka and orange and Kerri but dick shaped ice cubes in my drink.....lol and we drank and chatted a little while and soon it was 4am and we all deciced to turn in.
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