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So, you may wonder what happened to me on the blog.  Well, it started the last few days of our cruise.  The ship was stricken with NORO virus and plenty of people caught it including Peggy and myself.  We were sicker than dogs and there was no getting out of bed or our cabin.  At least we weren't sick at the same time.  The last day of our cruise we found out that AMTRAK had cancelled our train out of San Francisco due to the flooding on the Nebraska border.  So, when we got to our hotel on Thursday, I swung into gear trying to get us on another train.We were able to get on the Zephyr and ride at least to Denver, but no further East.  I managed to find a hotel in Denver that was half way between the train station and the airport that had a free shuttle to the air terminals.  That was important because we had to rent a car on Sunday morning and nothing was open except the rental agencies at the airport.  So, we checked into the Double Tree hotel on Saturday night around 9PM...had dinner...and went to bed.  The next morning at 5AM we were up on the shuttle to the airport.  We rented one of the last cars in Denver and headed towards Illinois.  We drove straight through and got back to Quincy around 9:30PM Sunday nite.  I put Peggy on the train Monday morning at 6 AM and I think she is home now.  What an adventure.  Notwithstanding the Noro virus, we had a great time.