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not a whole lot to report this evening…

the extra-dry air circulated in the cars here in the train make my skin dry out, and also have made my nose bloody. i’ve got lotion for the skin(almost made a silence of the lambs joke here, you can insert your own) but no remedy for the nose. drinking lots of hot tea(yogi’s tahitian vanilla hazelnut!) and water hasn’t helped.

i’m in north dakota now, and in approximately 6 more hours i’ll be in minnesota, my new home state. Read the rest of this entry »

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the afternoon has been pleasant. the plains of montana leave nothing to report, just more of us snaking our way across the flatlands on rails…

i got a short nap in earlier, pretty much exactly one hour to the minute, waking up to see us about to pull into another station. we’ve been through one or two since then, going past havre and now malta. out here there really isn’t much to photograph or report on at all except the rare landmark like “fifteen mile creek,” a sign and even a creek i would’ve missed if blinking.

the land is covered in brown and yellow grass, with a rare bush or tree breaking ground, defying the crust only enough to still appear mostly dead, like a hand reaching out for its last hope for survival. despite all the clouds overhead, i don’t see any rain happening, so things look like they’ll remain as is.

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