The Tender Land

Another interesting day for us (depending how you look at it). We had another one of those very long travel days. This time it was by train. So, we woke up at 7:15 am (give or take a half an hour depending on the person) and caught the T to the Amtrak station. Our last taste of Boston was some Dunkin Donuts before we boarded our train.

There’s something nostalgic about traveling on train. For one, to someone our age travel by rail seems very antiquated. Trains are a relic from the past that we look at in museums or get annoyed at when we’re sitting at the railroad crossing on Broadway waiting for that endless, slow-moving freight train to move along.

Yet, travel was pretty cool. First, as we have just entered the second half of our trip, the ride basically served as a flashback of our trip so far. We traveled through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and into DC.

In standard fare for me, I turned on my iPod and gazed outside the window. Of coincidence, Aaron Copland’s “Tender Land Suite” popped up out of the thousands of songs that I have. The selection is significant in many ways…for one, it is a composition by a composer who is known for painting the richness of the American experience through music.

We had are having a hard time occupying ourselves on this leg of the trip. QuickTime on Manny’s Mac keeps on crashing making it very difficult for us to continue on with our weekly anime series Naruto. And we only packed 4 DVDs to watch. It will be a long 30-some-odd hrs, but there is plenty to watch from our windows.

More to come...