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Miami Day Five: Train-ing Back

After another yummy breakfast on our little balcony …

… and saying goodbye to our Miami Fortune House Airbnb …

… we headed to the Miami Amtrak and started homeward bounding. (Why do vacations have to end? Who came up with that idea?)

Cool Mural in the Amtrak Station 

Soon after we boarded the train, the rain started to come down! (Bad weather had not been a problem at all during our lovely stay.)

But actually, lying back in our reclining chairs, the rain was rather nice.

Of course, a little later, our Travel Buddies begged to go with us to the Dining Car for lunch …

Butter Cake for dessert. Oh my goodness. This is train food?!

Oh look, here’s our delightful new-bestie and train car attendant Jasmine …

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this train trip has been the really good quality of the food.

Dinner tonight was Flatiron Steak.

Robert says “Hello.”

Well, our little roomette has been magically transformed into cozy berths. The travel buddies are vacation-exhausted. We’ve brushed our teeth and said our prayers, so it’s time to say “Goodnight.”

Safe Travels to You!

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Miami Day One: Train-ing

This morn, before the rooster began to crow …

… Robert and I headed to the Savannah Amtrak Station to board a train (a 12-hour train!) to Miami to celebrate HR’s bday. He has been wanting to take a longer train trip for a while now.

What a fun day!

Our little private “roomette.”

Surprisingly, delicious breakfast in the dining car:

A long day, but wonderful service and very comfortable accommodations.

More about our Miami trip tomorrow. We are here till Sunday,

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Five Friday Happy Bringers 11/8/24

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

To be honest, after Tuesday’s foreboding election results, I have had sad difficulty finding happiness. Until I realized, once again, that true happiness is in the small things of life.

1. Colorful fall chrysanthemums.

Herb Creek Landscaping, Savannah

2. The belief that, no matter how dark it gets, there are sources of light.

3. Grandson Daniel winning Best Actor (for two years in a row now!) for his portrayal of Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love at the high school regional one-act play competition in Vidalia, GA (yes, the Vidalia of onion fame).

D now towers over both Robert and me

4. Riding the Amtrak train yesterday from Savannah over to Charleston, South Carolina for a wonderful day trip with Robert and ex-wife Donna.

Incredible lunch at Magnolia’s, one of our favorite fancy spancy Charleston restaurants

Donna and HR, relaxing in the Charleston Place Hotel lobby, pretending to be guests, as a harpist serenades them.

I wonder if it’s too late for me to learn to play the harp. 

5. My 24Kt gold-rimmed cocktail at the Charleston Place Thoroughbred Club after the harpist rudely took a break. (We had claimed squatter’s rights at the hotel by that time.)

What do you mean, you don’t believe me?!

May you find a spot of gold somewhere in your weekend ahead.