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| All aboard for Santa Fe! |
In the fall of 1986 my parents put me on a train in Springfield, Massachusetts, destination Santa Fe, New Mexico. Three days later I got off in Albuquerque, for in fact there was no train that went to Santa Fe. I don't know if this was understood when I boarded and have no memory of how I completed the 65 miles remaining before arriving, no doubt bedraggled, the very last of the incoming class matriculating to St. John's College, Santa Fe campus.
In the fall of 2025, that is to say earlier this week, I found myself again in Albuquerque with the same 65 miles to go. This time I traveled as a senior member of the research division of a major tech company, an improbable future for the boy who arrived in '86 to study the Great Books, though what the probable future is for a Johnnie I've never known. Happily, in the intervening (*gulp*) 39 years someone has built a train line between the two cities, and so I boarded for the hour-something ride north, completing my journey at last.
As a coda to this story, I saw this advertisement next to my boarding gate for the flight home:
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| Time to get another degree? |
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