Train ride from the "h" word

 

  

 Tracy on the train 

Black marker on Moleskin paper

5 x 9 inches

Barbara Muir © 2011

(Forgive the lighting -- hotel

bathroom shot again.)

Okay.  So I have been sick all week with an inner ear infection.
I really just got up for a little while yesterday, but Steven and
I had planned that I'd come to Montreal this weekend, so I
dutifully got the train, thinking well I'll take a taxi, and then
be on the train -- how hard can it be?

Well... pretty hard as it turned out, because after leaving
Toronto half an hour late, we were floating along through
the pretty landscape along Lake Ontario.  I was talking to,
and drawing my seat mate, because we got along very well.
Then...the train stopped at Belleville, and we were told to get
off -- we'd have to go the rest of the way by bus to Montreal.

We were all indignant, but so well behaved and Canadian,
while we waited for 50 minutes standing outside the train
station for the buses to arrive.  And we got into Montreal,
with no stops, no water, no goodies on the bus at 11:15 pm
instead of 8:23.  So that was a rough beginning to the trip.

Luckily I drew this little picture of my friend until Belleville,
Tracy.  (She was going to Kingston, so put on a different
bus.) Thanks for posing for me Tracy, and remember that
you offered to let me draw you when I was doing a bad sketch
of myself from my camera.  Hope you have a great weekend Tracy, and
best wishes to all my brave and plucky fellow travelers.

Have a being-grateful-for-arriving-safely day.