fly away on my zephyr - by vincent huang

i’m writing this on california zephyr, the amtrak from sf to chicago. the ride is supposed to be 52 hours long but the first 20 hours of the trip took us 26 hours to complete because of engine failures, so who knows how long i’m actually stuck on this train for. on the bright side utah was gorgeous, and i got to see way more of it than anticipated because delays pushed the utah portion of the route from partially nighttime to entirely daytime work and travel once again conspired to ruin my sleep. i’ve been helping start a nonprofit called transluce and launch day happened to align with the first day of the train ride. tuesday/wednesday was an absolute fever dream - get to the office at 10am, work on the launch until 7am, uber to the train station, try to keep myself awake throughout the california portion of the route. it was only when we reached nevada (by far the ugliest and most boring scenery of the trip unfortunately) that i finally let myself sleep the train is overwhelmingly whi

i’m writing this on california zephyr, the amtrak from sf to chicago. the ride is supposed to be 52 hours long but the first 20 hours of the trip took us 26 hours to complete because of engine failures, so who knows how long i’m actually stuck on this train for. on the bright side utah was gorgeous, and i got to see way more of it than anticipated because delays pushed the utah portion of the route from partially nighttime to entirely daytime work and travel once again conspired to ruin my sleep. i’ve been helping start a nonprofit called transluce and launch day happened to align with the fir