Adventure by train

OK, I know I said my next show was going to be Sleater-Kinney. Which is coming up on Saturday. But in the mean time, I added another little Indigo Girls show, last night, in Baltimore.

Anyway, concert last night, in Baltimore. Erika and I decided we didn't want to deal with rush hour traffic, so we'd take the train up & back. Leaving Washington, we took the MARC (a commuter train), which was only $7 and dropped us off about 5 blocks away from the concert. Coming home though was a different story. We had to take Amtrak, for $17, since there aren't MARC trains after about 7:00. The last train left Baltimore at 11:20, so we couldn't miss it. And it was at a different station than the MARC, so we had to take a cab there.

We left the show during the last song. Which normally I don't like to do, but please, it was Galileo, not like I haven't heard that song live more times than I can count. Penn Station was practically deserted. I felt slightly vagrant-like. I was dying of thirst, but all the stores and restaurants were closed, and there were no vending machines.

But, we made the train, the cafe car was still open so I bought some water, and the conductor never took our tickets. All in all, a fairly easy way to travel, despite the $17 ticket, and was worth the money to avoid rush hour traffic.