11.10.16: The first leg of my trip was on the Lakeshore Limited from New York to Chicago. I met a wonderful couple from Montpellier, VT who told me about their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela last year, and about their first date to hear The Messiah at Carnegie Hall forty years earlier. I also met a pediatrician who was afraid of flying. She told me I was the second musician she’d met on a train; the first was Neil Young, with whom she’d had breakfast on the California Zephyr twenty years earlier. She said he was a doll. I woke up somewhere in Ohio and took this photo with the camera I’d bought at Best Buy on the day of my departure, having decided to leave my phone at home. #8980bookoftravelers