All aboard on Amtrak to Portland Round Trip
The seat assignment I was given was seat 58 in the last car of the train. And that is where I tried to head to after climbing the stairs. Which for me was not easy, believe me.
Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don’t when sitting next to someone you are meeting for the first time in your life. How ever your long or short your trip is. It goes by quickly or takes forever depending once again who your seat mate is. The person I was assigned to be next to me was a Youngman living in the Bay Area, and he was stopping over to visit with friends in Portland. We made a gentleman’s agreement to watch each other’s stuff. We would more or less take turns on watching our seats to make sure no one messed with them. Some people no matter who they are seem to forget those kinds of things. They are the type of people who seem to think everything belongs to them, even when it doesn’t. We know the rest of the story in those cases.
My seatmate and I kept passing each other from the snack bar to the observation train and back again during the entire trip. After my first introduction we didn’t sit in the same place twice even after our first meeting. The kid is majoring in computer science with two semesters under his belt. I may have been over barring with the kid being only 19 years old and me just turning 69 on September 5th, 1954. This year that just past and this month I am excited with a chance to finally get out of KF as it has been some years in that case for me since I have been anywhere, less well Portland, except to pass hrough in a car or on Amtrak as the last stop or ending point.
This is a first Amtrak train I have been on since my trip to the Big Island in Ocean View for a 4-month stint. It became too expensive to be there, so I had to get help from my friends at the time to arrange for a flight and a train trip back to the Basin. Where I temporarily stayed with them in Tulelake until I could find a place to rent and stay on my own, and I did, eventually with a few weeks living back in Tulelake.
It was with an OIT freshman student living in his parents’ house where they rented out one bedroom to generate an income from the house his parents owned. I lived on Denton Way until my Klamath Housing Authority payments for low income came through after signing up more than a year takes at least a year before you are approv-ed by KHA from your application a year earlier.
After arriving in Portland, I saw the kid in passing a few more times in Union Station as we were picking up our checked bag-gage. Don’t know if I will ever hear from the kid ever again but he seemed like a very nice kid. I just had a bit of trouble with his name. His name was Joe May a unique original first name, at least for me hearing the name for the first time. I don’t get out much!
Could tell it has been a while since I have been to Portland passing through. They now have a smoking area designated smokers park. A place to sit and relax and enjoy the scenery.
Except I didn’t see it until the return trip back to Klamath Falls. Since the event was canceled it made for a much less stressful trip to Portland. And would have never made the 5 PM-7PM anniversary event on the environmental group, for their 25th celebration in Portland. I could relax more and only worry about getting a taxi to my room located at Motel 6.
Hailing a cab was a bit of nightmare.
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