Atlas Field Notes

Six hours on a slow train north

Portrait of Elena VossBy Elena Voss
A passenger train moving through open countryside

The fast train is for people with meetings. The slow one is for looking out the window until the landscape repeats.

Pack:

  • A paperback you will not finish
  • Something salty
  • A notebook that can survive being sat on

Stations blur. Someone across the aisle peels an orange and the whole car smells like winter. That is the whole trip, honestly.