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It's too bad it took so long for them to come up with "communal" trains. It obviously would have saved so many people a lot of grief back then! And I hope that conductor was playing "cheep-cheep-birdy" with that feather duster solely for your amusement! Otherwise, someone might have come along and taken him away . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on August 23, 2013 at 2:22 PM
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very interesting Kabu memories like this will be forgotten. I expect in five hundred years time anything like this will be history in a museum. I suppose it is the same with the Gypsies that used to plague us. Keep writing.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM
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We have come along way from those days of our upbringing but memories are still good to hang onto; especially, those with our family. I think our minds expand more and are more open when we travel and see how other people live and survive their culture. Maybe it just makes us appreciate our own homeland more. We, too, buy things from other places to remind us of our travels.
posted by
Butterfly-1950
on August 23, 2013 at 11:35 AM
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This is wonderful Kabu. My Sister went on a mission to Perth and brought back many things. I found a 1943 Australian penny with a kangaroo on it (its big) she has an old boomerang and other odds and ends that need to be gone through. Whenever I find something from down under I think of you and tell those working around me one of your stories I have read. This is what makes Blogit so wonderful, we have friends all over the place, and if the're not there at the moment, they once were.
posted by
UtahJay
on August 23, 2013 at 11:04 AM
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I can imagine that would be boring for a small child to travel, that is where the question comes from Are We There Yet?
posted by
Lanetay
on August 23, 2013 at 7:59 AM
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It would be quite the adventure now, to see all that.
If only for your grandkids' sense of history, and to ground them in who their family is, your story should be told as you've told it to us as we sit around the Blogit campfire. Your growing up world is a whole 'nother place than the electronic place where they are. This was a fascinating return to another time. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on August 23, 2013 at 4:52 AM
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Reading of how the trains were each a different system in the state reminds me of things I hear from people who lived before the Federal Highways came into being.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 22, 2013 at 7:24 PM
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I can imagine 3 days in a train without much room to run around could be boring to a child.I don't even WANT to imagine doing that trek with my Rugrats, LOL! The boomerang is kool! Mom's didn't get around as much then, had less experience as you say. But we love our mom even if she's wrong sometimes.
posted by
adnohr
on August 22, 2013 at 7:07 PM
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Kabuiepie-;)~
A very beautiful story and I learn and read of a very different and a warmer land than Canada. All of this should turn into a book love, you are a winner of a writer.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 22, 2013 at 7:05 PM
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I watched Quiggley Down Under. It gave a view. Childhood memories stir us to think and do differently than our parents. Balance is needed for I found that my children seem to think and do as my parents. 
posted by
Dr_JPT
on August 22, 2013 at 5:12 PM
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Kabu
Again - fascinating! And great pics as well! And Mom? Well, she meant well. I guess she was very protective of her little ones...
posted by
Nautikos
on August 22, 2013 at 4:39 PM
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Kabu
Oh how interesting. I think that would have been very interesting and scary as well. Any vehicle can break down and it appears it is miles from anything or anybody most of the time. Expanding this would be very interesting. Hope both of you are well.
posted by
Justi
on August 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM
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