Thursday, September 4, 2014

Roseville, MN (Transiberian Railroad): Implaccable Progress of the Northbound Train

Roseville, MN, USA



One thing about traveling overland is that you spend a lot of time in trains. A lot. Of time. By my calculations I spent 197 hours on the train, which is more than 8 days. The kids didn’t get to train with me from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok, so they came out with a mere 184 hours or so. Still, that’s longer than the whole Transiberian Railroad from Moscow to Vladivostock, which flashes past in at a mere 170 hours. Of course this is just training time. I make no claims about buses, planes or time chillin' at their respective stations. 



So 197 or even 184 hours isn’t nuthin’. In fact, some would say it's somethin' and something deserving a little song to go along with it. So that’s what this is: The Implacable Progress of the Northbound Train musical video travel blog to commemorate all those great train rides. I started it on the long train ride after my battery had run out and I just had a notebook and a video camera. The kids helped me finish the filming in Vladivostok along an old railroad near our hotel and.. wait for it... at the railroad station that is the terminus of the mighty Transiberian. Cool, no?

The poem at the end of the song is printed elsewhere in this blog.

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