TUK TAC PDX a blue moon Friday.
Do you love trains? I do... I don’t take them nearly enough. I love kinda everything about them. What they are, the sounds they make, they’re on rails, they got the best horns... I shared a pic and talked a little about my F riday off adventure to Portland at: Day Tripper
My good friend Dave and I hung out in the Pearl District and we went to one of our all time favorite bookstores on the planet, Powell’s Books... We've both been going here since the 1970s.
So the video is kind of the bookends to that story... I caught some great morning footage at the Amtrak Tukwila station, and later that evening leaving Portland, crossing “The Mighty Columbia River” on a bridge back to my hood, Washington State.
There is a romance, I have it about trains. I can’t ride one that I don’t think about famous train movies like Murder on the Orient Express, The Train, Transsiberian, Von Ryan’s Express, The Lady Vanishes, etc. etc. and I remember the train rides we did as kids to Spokane from Seattle to see Grandma & Grandpa Larson.
Though science makes every good intentioned effort to remind me that those like me who believe “once in a blue moon” myth scenarios are (perhaps and somewhat) magical and mysterious, but hardly provable, yet this day it turns out quite special and with magic and I say, accept and enjoy. Who’s really to question the meaning of a blue moon? Afterall, this one was mine.
TUK = Tukwila, TAC = Tacoma and PDX = Portland
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