Starting out with a bang!

As you know, I left Chicago on Friday with a grand farwell at the train station. Lots of tears and many people to miss! Well, after a two hour train ride I made it to Kenosha, WI and started to load myself up with my many bags (heavy backpack, small duffle bag, and three other small bags). As I was heading to the door to exit the train (kenosha is the last stop).....the doors shut!!! Me and another lady frantically looked around for anyone or anything to get the door opened....no luck. Then, the train started moving again. The lady started walking through the train cars with me trying to follow with all of my stuff (this is one reason why I like to travel light and everyone who knows me- knows I travel light!). The train finally stopped a few blocks from the station in the middle of the tracks and we found an emergency button that opened one of the doors. This meant that we had to JUMP off the train (and I was wearing cheap flip flops, not good adventure shoes!). The other lady took off and I looked around to make sure no trains were coming and had to throw the duffle bag off the train and then jumped off onto the tracks with everything else!!! I felt like I was in a movie! I walked along the tracks a bit then found some train worker stairs that I climbed down to street level and walked a few blocks with all of my stuff and found some grass and dropped everything and sat down under a tree! I couldn't believe what happened and had to tell someone!! After resting a while & making a few phone calls, I decided to load up again and make my way to the coffee shop a few more blocks away where I was to wait for my friend Jackie to pick me up after she was done at school. Thankfully the coffee shop over looked Lake Michigan and had a great deck to rest in the sun! So, it was quite a start to my new adventure and I was only two hours into it! I wonder what other adventures are around the corner!?!?