To the City
Feb. 18th, 2023 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterFor how long I’ve lived out here, it feels like I haven’t really been down to New York City all that much. I think I’ve been out to Boston much more often!
But my mother asked me to come down and meet up with her, so here I am, on the train down to the City. One thing that can be said, even if everything else is terrible, the train ride down is fantastic so long as one can snag a seat on the river side of the train.
https://flic.kr/p/2ohxW8h
Difficult to properly photograph, of course. But that’s okay. I also consider these train trips to be reconnaissance missions for the day (someday) when I voyage down to the city by boat.
https://flic.kr/p/2ohvi3f
Today I am also simply relieved to have made it to the train. Our only bike/ped river crossing over to Rensselaer, where the train station is located, is currently completely closed. I am livid about that for equity and accessibility reasons. On a practical level, we made plans to use an electric car share vehicle to manage the crossing. But when we arrived at the lot where the charging station is located, the vehicle was nowhere in sight. S eventually tracked it down via the app, in a neighborhood several miles away, but at that point there wasn’t enough time to go get it and get to the train station on time. Thankfully I have rower friends who are awake at an ungodly early hour on a Saturday morning, and one was able to get me to the train in a hurry with 5 minutes to spare.
But my mother asked me to come down and meet up with her, so here I am, on the train down to the City. One thing that can be said, even if everything else is terrible, the train ride down is fantastic so long as one can snag a seat on the river side of the train.
https://flic.kr/p/2ohxW8h
Difficult to properly photograph, of course. But that’s okay. I also consider these train trips to be reconnaissance missions for the day (someday) when I voyage down to the city by boat.
https://flic.kr/p/2ohvi3f
Today I am also simply relieved to have made it to the train. Our only bike/ped river crossing over to Rensselaer, where the train station is located, is currently completely closed. I am livid about that for equity and accessibility reasons. On a practical level, we made plans to use an electric car share vehicle to manage the crossing. But when we arrived at the lot where the charging station is located, the vehicle was nowhere in sight. S eventually tracked it down via the app, in a neighborhood several miles away, but at that point there wasn’t enough time to go get it and get to the train station on time. Thankfully I have rower friends who are awake at an ungodly early hour on a Saturday morning, and one was able to get me to the train in a hurry with 5 minutes to spare.
