"The best-laid schemes o' mice and an' men
Gang aft a-gley"
I was reminded of these famous lines from Robert Burns' poem To a Mouse when our plans for the tour recently went "a-gley" or as sometimes said, "awry". Today we (Lexi and I) began to look into buying the train tickets from Portland to Wilmington. We first learned that we would have to box our bikes in order to check them as luggage, a hassle that we were not too thrilled with. Upon calling Amtrak a second time we would receive even worse news. Apparently, even if we did box our bikes, it would be useless because Amtrak does not even offer checking luggage from Boston to Wilmington, meaning there would be know way to get our bikes back with us on a train. So now what? There are not too many other options, and I do not actually know what we are going to do yet. I think the next best option is to take a bus. I never really thought I would ever take a Greyhound bus for long distance transportation. Usually only runaways take busses to get somewhere. The good thing about taking a bus would be that it is a lot cheaper. Besides that I do not really know of any other options except making the tour a loop, which is not that desireable of an option. Oh well, trains arn't really all that cool anyway.
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