Hi Everyone, This is Josie. I'm posting Mom's text messages on this site for anyone who might be following her trip. (er... bad choice of words?) Mom sent some text message from the train. Sounds like she is having a great time. Although she is still learning how to text message, so some messages were hard to decipher.
From Mom: Friday 5pm "Winnipegnow ParrySound biggestwooden tressle in N.A. still in use - maybe 6 stories high. Mom" & "Trainscommunitiesveryfriendly"
In Capreol, first day on the train (Jn. 19), we stopped for 20 minutes, and everyone got off and walked up and down. Pretty wild flowers there.
Many smoked, because it's not permitted on the train
- (The Canadian).
The stops are many hours apart right across Canada.
In Sioux Lookout next day, the young adults all got a hackisack game going. You can see it above their heads - good shot, eh?
Frank, 2nd on the left, was headed to Edmonton to work on steel girders building large apartments and factories. He's bilingual - speaks English and Italian fluently.
Robbie, the youngest one at 17, was headed to Edmonton to work with an uncle for the summer, landscaping in Edmonton.
Daniel was headed to Regina University to study philosophy under the Jesuits. The Jesuits have a college within the university. He and I had a wonderful philosophical discussion.
Friendly Canadians on The Canadian.
I bought a cell phone only 2 days b4 I left on this trip, and did not know how to use it. Adele from Winnipeg was travelling via VIA on 'my' train, and showed me that it also had a camera and how to use it. She showed me how to get the numbers to work on text messages, and many other things about the phone.
Then we chatted for ages many times. Trains travelers are so very friendly. Even if I get a berth next time, I will go down to the coach dome car and dining area and spend a large part of my time there. I made so many friends on the train, coming and going. Try it! You'll love it!!! She took this pic of me...
Text message from me posted by Josie: Saturday 10am "train0ridewonderful0so0friendly0coming0into0wainwright0trestle0half0mile0long0spectacular0love0u0can0u0put0on0blog0for0luuc0see0ron0soon0two0hours0late0mom" I think she is saying the train ride is wonderful, she is coming into Wainwright trestle in half a mile - so spectacular. She sent another message saying someone is helping with her messages, so they might start to get better. The picture below was sent from her phone this morning! Josie.
Crossing the tressle near Fabyan and Wainwright AB. This tressle is about 1/2 mile long and is the longest one of its type in N.A. The train slows to a jiggly crawl to go across. I couldn't look down. My crazy l'il brother was only 13 yrs. old and living in Wainwright then when he and his buddies climbed up from the riverbank below, there being only one little area on the bridge where such a thing is possible, and they hooked their legs up and over onto the bridge itself. It's wide enough to allow for pedestrians (meaning workers) to walk if a train happened by.
On June 17/08, two days before I left on VIA Rail for the west coast, I went into Telus at the mall to buy a cell phone so that while I was on my cycling trip, I could text message home. Josie set it up so that she would type into the blog that which I text messaged each day or few days - (trouble was, she typed exactly as I wrote it, and I often did a terrible job of putting messages in correctly. Still haven't figured out how to capitalize, other than the first word in the first sentence which is done automatically).
While I was in the Telus shop, I had Mr. T with me as I was b-sitting that day. I used my regular camera to take this picture, and I think it's precious.
Wonder if Telus could use it for an ad? Their employees gave him all those stickers which he happily stuck onto his clothes. I laugh everytime I see it. Enjoy! the future is friendly. Best news yet.
Prior to this, Mr. T and I had been in Canadian Tire where he had entered a display tent and had scratched his head on the top of it, I thought. He bled profusely, and staff ran for bandaids. His mommy told me later that he had already had a scratch there, and he told her that he had picked the scab. I had to sign a form at Cdn. Tire as a result. Note bandaid. Oh, wonderful memories!
It was very important to me to learn how to use the phone but I certainly didn't know that the phone, luckily for me, had a camera, too.
Up to then, I didn't know how to make a space (# sign) and so sent my first message with a zero between each word.
One comment from Mary Esta on this subject is very funny. "me said... so0am0i0supposed0to0leave0a0comment0like0this hehehe just kidding Mom. Jn 30/08"
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