On Wednesday, the 4th, Daniel and I caught the Lake-Shore Limited -- the night train to Chicago -- and had a compartment for the overnight trip. I've had a compartment one other time and remembered it seeming spacious and uncluttered. It turns out that the compartment seems rather cramped when you're sharing it with a teenaged boy. But we had a great time. We rolled into Chicago a bit before noon and picked up a rental car to drive back to Kalamazoo.
I haven't visited Kalamazoo probably as often as I should have. In the past several years, I've usually ended up going with Lucy to visit Philip and haven't made it back to Michigan. I did come last year just for my high school reunion, but was only here for a couple of days. This year, I brought Daniel to participate in a Tillers International blacksmithing course. I took a lot of pictures.
We also visited many of the places I frequented as a child. We hiked around in the Kalamazoo Nature Center. We drove by my childhood home and the progressive elementary school I attended through third grade. We saw the horrific Toby Elementary School I went to afterwards. Very nostalgic.
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