CWW: On Track of the Train

I just love trains – don’t you? Give me a long train journey, a book in hand, a packet of chips by my side, watching the changing landscape rush by until the chug-chug lullaby rocks you into the land of dreams. And best of all – No meals to worry about, no doorbells to answer, no morning walks or jogs – Oh the pure simple joys of guiltless lolling about πŸ˜€

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β€œI like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.” ― Anna Funder

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β€œ… a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.
“It’s coming,” she finally explained. “Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it.” ― Gabriel GarcΓ­Β­a MΓ‘rquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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β€œIt’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something — you just have to want to learn its rhythm.” ― David Baldacci, The Christmas Train

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β€œTrains are beautiful. They take people to places they’ve never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they’re like people. They have their own mysteries.” ― Sam Starbuck, The Dead Isle

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β€œThe train rolled right through dinner and over the sunset and around ten o’clock and into a nap and out the next day…” ― Lindsay Mattick

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β€œThe train is a small world moving through a larger world.” ― Elisha Cooper, Train

Hope you enjoyed the ride πŸ™‚

Don’t forget to visit Cee’s blog for her Which Way Photo Challenge for some awesome photos.

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Dahlia

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14 thoughts on “CWW: On Track of the Train”

  1. I so agree with you, Dahlia. I too love a long train journey. For me, all I need is headphones, music and a window seat. I love staring at the scenery whizzing past. Lately I have been traveling to the country via train, and I love it. It is my happy place, being in between two places, hurtling to another end of somewhere. Taking photos out of the window is something I like doing too πŸ˜€

    I like the David Baldacci quote. There is something special about a long train ride. Some kind of calm. There is only so much you can do on a train, and you trust that you are going to a place that you won’t forget πŸ™‚

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    1. That’s great! I remember train journeys from my childhood 36 hours or longer. Super fun. But of course nothing to beat the really endless ones down under πŸ˜‰ πŸ˜€ Thanks for dropping by

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