San Francisco to Chicago on the Famous Cross-Country Zephyr Train
It was a birthday trip to remember. The milestone age of 30 in the midst of a pandemic. The older I get, the more I subscribe to the ‘faraway is not a place’ mantra. But for this particular hallmark birthday, I wanted actual perspective. The kind of existential life-lived-thus-far rumination I had planned needed both physical and mental distance from my near-militant daily routine.