Saturday, November 15, 2008

Nice Visit

Well, Doc Bo Keely just left. I took him to the airport this morning. Nice visit. About a week long. We caught that one train early on, and then by Thursday, when we had Madeleina with us we thought we'd hop another with her, but it was late at the yard and we missed one that stopped for three minutes for a crew change--we were 100 yards off when the thing pulled out of the station--and another came through, slowed, but didn't stop. Bo could have caught it but no way I was going to let by baby hop a moving freight, even if it was moving very slowly. After that an hour went by without another so we called it a hobo day.
Which didn't prevent hijinks in the form of taking an old sign off the side of a building--nothing glamorous and nothing that's being used anymore as the building is undergoing renovation and the sign will go any day. Still, important for Madeleina to be involved in a caper, even if she kept saying "People go to jail for this sort of thing, dad. Why do we need the sign anyway?"
We didn't, of course, we were just being silly middle-aged men showing Madeleina how to be a cut up without hurting anyone/anything. Better she learns from us than from somebody in high school a couple of years down the road.
Actually, it was a great week and it's just not coming through in this piece. I guess I'm just exhausted and will need to recharge--and probably should have before sitting down to write. Sorry. I'll work at something better tomorrow.
Thanks for the visit, Bo. Great hopping a train with you.

2 comments:

Morgan said...

I love a good freight train story :)

Many days&nights have been spent stalking those iron beasts, lurking through trainyards and, when the time is right, painting those big behemoths up. There is something awesome in being surrounded by giant steel snakes in the middle night. It's quiet all around, but when a train rumbles through, screeching and clanging and shaking the earth... wow.

Never hopped on one though...

But hey, there goes two whole cars... I wonder where they came from...

http://www.graffiti.org/fr8/trains/k/ker/ker06.jpg

http://www.graffiti.org/fr8/trains/k/ker/ker05.jpg

;)

Jorge Villacorta Santamato said...

Very interesting...!