I'm a happening fool

- construction site with a huge disco ball in the middle

- man on a bike waiting for us to pass while giving us a peace sign the whole time

- house with a Grateful Dead symbol on the front door

- People standing in their backyard holding their babies and waving as we pass by

- people with their dogs and letting them watch the train as it passes

- reservoirs of water so clear and still we look like we're in the clouds

- a young construction worker standing on a pile of dirt waving furiously at us all

- at handful of different bonfires/campfires/etc. once the sun came down

- large dinners seen through the lit windows of homes

- 2 rottweilers sitting on a bench outside their house howling along to the train's horn

- a playground full of children staring at the train from the top of the play structure like theyre tiny prisoners

- hills so covered in the tiniest flower buds they look like theyre blushing

- A field of workers mooning us and laughing out loud

- dark dark hills covered in warm yellow lights 💛

- the smallest train station ive ever seen (one small hut with 2 benches inside) in New Mexico with 2 guys in big cowboy hats hugging goodbye as one gets on the train and the other gets back in his extremely dusty truck

- young guy painting a large and beautiful mural of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building

- a lady running outside with an insulated rolling bag while at a long stop as the conductor excitedly called over the intercom: "the burrito lady is here! Quick, everyone run outside and buy a burrito, I'm giving you 5 minutes!"

- the conductor going out and getting a burrito for free but buying more anyway

- a little Prada store (?) in what is quite literally the middle of nowhere, Texas?????? (Apparently an art installation!)

- 2 people sitting outside of a little bar in a small town in Texas, with their dog, talking and watching the train for the duration of our stop

- groups of girls playing softball (one on a college field in their uniforms, and another right next to it in a normal park field in random street clothes), both stopping their games to wave

- a bull standing right next to the train, full facing us, calmly looking on

- people on scenic walks, people heading into work, people heading down to their mailbox, all stopping to wave hi at us

- 2 dogs and a cat trotting happily down the road towards their little farmhouse (*very* Homeward Bound)

- guy skateboarding down the street

- quite literally in the middle of farms and work yards, a large tent with paper lanterns and string lights hung up, as if made pretty for an event

- Halloween decorations still up

- man grilling outside

- Christmas decorations up now

- the disco ball in the work yard is broken now

-Grateful Dead door is still there

- a man waiting patiently, giving us a thumbs up

- another man in his work truck, leaning his arm on his open window and his head in his hand, clearly delayed by trains pretty often

- the leaves changing

- backyard with a hammock that says Honduras

- the most beautiful neighborhoods you can imagine

- someone in the window of their house, filming the train go by

- a pug in the front yard, right up against the fence, staring so intently

- all the people who wave at the train by nature of it being a train going by, and then the ones who wave on instinct when they see someone waving inside

- small hand built shack that has a little painted sign that says Slim Pickens

- lit Christmas trees in windows

- a handmade, hand-painted dormer (?) on top of a house

- the back of some kind of set

“I only wanted to warn you that Sammy can get into trouble faster than you can make most women smile.”