The trip hasn't quite begun - but the travel hazards have. We have an email from VIA rail informing us that the train that should have left Toronto heading west at 10 pm last night will be leaving at 7 this morning instead. Keep phoning VIA for updates. No Hallowe'en prank, unfortunately. The real problem is not that we will be leaving tomorrow instead of just after midnight tonight. It's that the telephone has been cancelled as of November 1 - which the phone company will probably interpret as one minute after midnight. So as of midnight we will have no telephone, no pathetically crap dial-up internet, and no idea how late the train will be or when we should leave for the station. We can (and do) keep checking throughout the day. The last estimate is 6 a.m. tomorrow - but will this change during the night? Memo to self: next year suspend the phone from the day
after anticipated departure.
