Well,  I'm finally  on the  road. We've  been fixing  up our
place in Fulton,  MO, and now I'm heading to  AZ by train to
get our  things and  bring them back.  It's about  7pm local
time, and  since it's  summer, the  sun isn't  quite setting
yet. We're traveling through mostly farm land and forest.

Missouri is beautiful,  but it's not quite the  same kind of
beauty  that I'm  used to  on the  west coast.  It's a  very
homogeneous beauty, which is  hardly a reasonable complaint,
but it's new for me. In Arizona, Oregon, and California, for
example-  along  with  several  other  western  states-  you
transition very  rapidly between different types  of scenery
while traveling.  Missouri is  not quite  as varied.  It is
green  and inviting  though, especially  from within  an air
conditioned vehicle.

Amtrak is  nice so far.  I've never  user them before,  so I
didn't really know what to expect.  The wifi on the train is
good, at  least for my  uses (ssh  and email.) They  claim a
restriction on  video/audio streaming, which  doesn't matter
at all to me. The speed, so  far, is good. I think that it's
great for  a moving  vehicle going  through the  back woods.
Maybe there are no back woods any more.

We're about to stop in Sedalia.  I suppose I'll try to write
more as the trip goes on, here and on my other phlogs.