Another day, another Greyhound station. And I still aten’t ded.

So I didn’t get around to posting anything about New Orleans yet. Put it down to a slowly-broiling brainpan, I think I was beyond my safe operating limits there… Great place, but I’m very glad to have been in the cooler climes of Chicago for a couple of days. I’ll post up photos from both cities soon.

Not had as much time here as I’d planned – I ended up staying an extra day in New Orleans after the train I was hoping to get doubled in price and then sold out over the course of the hour I faffed through instead of buying the ticket straight off. Lesson learned there, I think.

So now I’m off to Minneapolis / Bloomington MN for CONvergence, which will probably be a good time to stop running around and rest up a little, as well as doing all the con stuff. Got those photo posts to sort out, and I owe some quick host reviews on Airbnb.

Using Airbnb for this trip has been a really great experience so far. If you don’t know that one, it’s a site where people can let out spare rooms, trailers out back, anything up to entire homes for a couple of days or long-term. I’ve been really lucky with my choice of places so far, without exception the places have had everything I need and the hosts have been so welcoming and helpful. (It’ll probably be a bit weird staying in a hotel for the con…)

Been almost a month already. Wow. Had a few wobbly moments along the way, not homesick but missing certain people like crazy. The long train journeys with no wifi? HARD. Got one 36hr comms blackout next week and another 50hr train journey before GenCon… Though the scenery will definitely help (Minneapolis to Seattle next week, then the entire Southwest Chief route in August). Very glad I stocked up the Kindle before I left!