Still delayed

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. – As was the case yesterday, I set the alarm clock this morning for 5:45 a.m., but it never went off.
That’s because the sun woke me up 15 minutes early, as it began to creep over the mountains in the Great Basin. Though part of me definitely wanted to sleep some more, the [...]

Rocky Mountain High

(Did you really expect me to use anything else for the headline?)
We finally reached Denver at around 11:30 a.m. MT. We spent about 20 minutes there, during which time the train was cleaned a bit and some supplies were restocked. We also got newspapers delivered, in this case the Rocky Mountain News.

I was a bit [...]