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We managed to make it home to Fernley today, running ahead of a storm that should arrive tomorrow.
( No Trains Today )
The house was intact. While it was -4°C outside, the inside temperature was still +10°C. The electric heaters had held the cold at bay. It will take a while to get things warmed up again, but I got a fire going and then Lisa and I unloaded the minivan.
We'd originally hoped to get some milk from Family Dollar on the way home, but they were out, so instead I ran over to Grocery Outlet after we got things to a point where we can at least stop for tonight. There is a lot that still needs to be done, but it can wait.
I totaled up our rail mileage for this trip: 8,671 miles. It's not the trip we planned, and lots of things did not go as planned, both while traveling and while at Worldcon, and all of those things were dissatisfying. However, I'm trying to look at the bright side. We don't appear to have caught COVID-19 (despite being exposed to people we know who did later test positive). We got to see things we'd never seen before and had always wanted to see. Even though we couldn't do our "circle" trip (more a lumpy figure-of-eight, had it worked out) and our Amtrak bedroom was canceled, we still had a private room on all legs of the trip and didn't have to ping-pong between rooms the way some people did, or have to spend an extra week in a hotel somewhere due to train cancellations. Even when we ran badly late, friends stepped in to help. We threaded a needle of good weather between storms, and we made it home on the scheduled day. So overall, it was not as good as we had hoped, but it was far better than it might have been.
Tomorrow will be, I hope, a day off. No alarm set. No major things to do other than put my home office back together in preparation to returning to work on Tuesday.
( No Trains Today )
The house was intact. While it was -4°C outside, the inside temperature was still +10°C. The electric heaters had held the cold at bay. It will take a while to get things warmed up again, but I got a fire going and then Lisa and I unloaded the minivan.
We'd originally hoped to get some milk from Family Dollar on the way home, but they were out, so instead I ran over to Grocery Outlet after we got things to a point where we can at least stop for tonight. There is a lot that still needs to be done, but it can wait.
I totaled up our rail mileage for this trip: 8,671 miles. It's not the trip we planned, and lots of things did not go as planned, both while traveling and while at Worldcon, and all of those things were dissatisfying. However, I'm trying to look at the bright side. We don't appear to have caught COVID-19 (despite being exposed to people we know who did later test positive). We got to see things we'd never seen before and had always wanted to see. Even though we couldn't do our "circle" trip (more a lumpy figure-of-eight, had it worked out) and our Amtrak bedroom was canceled, we still had a private room on all legs of the trip and didn't have to ping-pong between rooms the way some people did, or have to spend an extra week in a hotel somewhere due to train cancellations. Even when we ran badly late, friends stepped in to help. We threaded a needle of good weather between storms, and we made it home on the scheduled day. So overall, it was not as good as we had hoped, but it was far better than it might have been.
Tomorrow will be, I hope, a day off. No alarm set. No major things to do other than put my home office back together in preparation to returning to work on Tuesday.
