LAX to PDX in 34 Hours

May 31, 2006
5:30am - wake up first time
6:30am - wake up second time and get out of bed.
7:00am - pack 3 large boxes, 1 camping backpack, 1 timbuk2 bag, and a bicycle in my mom's itty bitty mercedes.
7:55am - gas up the car and smoothie up our bellies
9:15am - arrive at Union Station
9:23am - unpack all my bags, put them on a cart, check in, Brennan runs upstairs to check my bike
10:00am - get on the Starlight Express to Portland, OR.

June 1, 2006
10:00pm - arrive in Portland, OR

I will have been on this train for over 34 hours. We have eaten 3 meals in the dining car, I have had one meal in the snack car, we have spent hours watching the ocean from the viewing lounge, and hours sleeping in our seats. I have been by the ocean, through farm lands, across the mountains, and under tunnels, upstairs, downstairs, and in a bajillion seats.

I started my life with Brennan yesterday. We spoke for hours of it, about marriage, eloping, living together, our lives, and all those wonderful things. Eloping? No. But it was agreed that we might as well be doing it. Perhaps my mother wouldn't be too happy to hear such news. But it is starting and I am excited.

He said it felt like a dream. I can't agree, but it doesn't seem real either. Not surreal, but perhaps it hasn't hit me yet.