Thu, 15:30 : Somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, snapping blurry photographs from the window of a moving train. When's breakfast? Fri, 01:01 : Goodbye Eugene. Next stop, Portland. Fri, 01:26 : Hanging out in the Pacific Parlor Car for the last few hours reading and having a conversation with a particularly precocious sixth grader. Fri, 01:29 : Now stopped; a freight train ahead on the tracks. Precocious sixth-grader has talked me into letting her play Angry Birds on my iPad. Fri, 05:11 : Hello Olympia! Fri, 05:18 : ...and goodbye Olympia! http://t.co/7R7allu Fri, 06:34 : Hello Seattle!