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(161½) is the evening of Wednesday, 16 June 2010.
This is relatively little, but I feel I have to make an entry for my train ride from Amsterdam to Prague. Not much happened, but I did take an overnight train, which is something I've always wanted to do. Basically, whenever I hear "America" by Simon and Garfunkel* with its line "and the moon rose over an open field," I imagine watching that from a moving train. Even if the song takes place on a bus.
I was in a 6-person couchette (and of course I get top bunk in a stack of 3). But as the conductor kindly informed me, I would be the only person in the couchette until the others boarded in some 3-4 hours. So, I had some personal space for a change! I had been perfectly fine with hostel-hopping and the consequent room-sharing, and I would continue to be. But I didn't realize until the conductor left and I locked the door just what a relief it was to have some guaranteed personal space, if only for a few hours. I didn't even have to do anything special with it (and, sure enough, I didn't)... just locking the door and having some time to myself was wonderful. It also made me realize a bit how nice it would be to have that reliably again back in the United States.
I went to bed and woke up about an hour outside of Prague.
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Footnote
* My advice is to not watch the video and just listen to the song... this was the only studio version that YouTube had to offer.
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