HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Today was totally on the train. I’m really enjoying this single compartment. It is relatively small. It has a lounge chair on one side and a sink and toilet, with as wooden and vinyl seat that goes over the toilet when not in use, on the other side. And behind the lounge chair is the pull-down bed. The room also has shelves and a locker style safe up high for storage and access at night.

I had breakfast, then had a shower and converted the bed back into the lounge chair.  Then read a little and then had lunch in the dining car, and spent a little time sitting in the dome car as well, talking with some of the other travellers as well as taking some photos.

We also got to stop at a town called Hornepayne for a half hour. The drivers had to change over and waste remove and new supplied brought on board. One of the passengers brought out his Phantom drone and got some good footage. I took some photos of the engines as they are out of bounds at all of the stations.

I then read a magazine (Newsweek) in my compartment and set the bed back up and lay on it and listened to an audiobook of a Tom Clancy novel (Executive Orders). I was still relatively full by the time dinner came along so I didn’t go to that. So at about 9pm it was normal bedtime so I shut down the book and got to sleep by around 11pm.