Tofu Walls: Homebound

We began our journey home with a bit of luck - an actual overnight cart! Sadly, we were separated from some of our train buddies as they were stopping along the way and therefore placed in other carts.

Here is a list of pros and cons I compiled on the train.

TRAIN HAPPINESS

so much leg space
the seat reclines so far back!
there are hooks above the window
there was a space behind us where we could put our luggage
I hung my bananas on the hook
they had legit tables that didn't move when the person in front of you reclines their seat
we weren't at the front so we could barely hear the train horn
the seats were so much softer
the washrooms were so much bigger and didn't get clogged!

THE ONLY BAD THINGS...

the lights were so bright at night and they were unable to switch them off
there was no big sink at the front - no more communal teeth brushing
the water fountain was too low to fill my bottle without making a huge mess

The days really began to blur together. We stopped at Jasper, and restocked on some groceries and found more bears. We then saw a real bear as we left Jasper.

HIGHLIGHTS

smelling the forest fire and seeing the smoke near Clearwater
meeting two girls from Germany who were on a working holiday - one of them gave me a book she had finished reading and I finished it in one day (that was my first Nicholas Sparks read)
the guy who bought a whole head of cauliflower and was sawing it up with a pocketknife, and eating it raw with a big bottle of ranch in the dining cart
people really enjoying my honey butter cashews
everyone holding their nose when we got on the train - we soon found out why when the smell of cleaning the septic tank greeted us
seeing deer popping out in a field of yellow, hopping like a kangaroo
meeting someone we later bumped into in Ottawa, and then ended up in LA at the same time
figuring how to turn the seats around and making a happy family seat with Hannah