#Day-2OnThe ClimateTrain

By the second day ,I was astonished  at how hard it was to sleep in coach, how dirty and user unfriendly were the toilets and how interesting and thoughtful were my fellow climate travelers. I was now getting familiar with all the personas having spent indepth chatting time with several of them, over coffee in the café, or taking in the magnificent scenery rolling by us in the observation car. My first indepth conversation was with journalist Chris Cook (author of Diet for a Dead Planet) and frequent contributor to Mother Jones and the Bay Guardian.  

As the days wore on, I became impressed by Cook’s professional and dedicated manner. I –who had fully intended to blog constantly—got overcome by the technical difficulties, sleepless state, and general mayhem due to being squeezed in such close quarters, but Cook kept dutifully taking notes as people tried to present their areas of expertise in the crowded aisle of our car, with “normal” travelers trying to make their way through the blocked aisle on their way to the observation or dining cars, while our enthusiastic conductor would periodically break in with his enthusiastic narration of the  landmark sites we were passing through. I was honored to have been quoted in Cook’s article online at Earth Island Journal:x.php/elist/eListRead/all_aboard_the_peoples_climate_train/