Everybody is sleeping.
At 3 in the afternoon, everyone is in full-blown siesta mode.
Myself included.
(I’m a light napper).
It’s the pace that’s different, is what I’m getting at. It’s not that there’s that much else to do, either. Play a game, watch a saved vid, or whatever you downloaded the last time the data was above 1 bar, rolling through Bala or Torrance or Wasego or wherever.
But everyone is zonked right out. And moreover, has the room to get zonked.
Which to those accustomed to air travel is a luxury all on it’s own. Economy on the rails is some Air Emirates level of lux in the air, when it comes to space and mobility.
Granted, hours turn into days in terms of distance travelled, in some kind of reverse-Innisian metaphor. It’ll take 4+ days to cross what a plane could accomplish in 4+ hours.
But it kinda does feel lux.
I mean, there’s a certain luxuriousness in being able to even take the time for a five day trip in this day and age, where time is money. “You took your time? How decadent.” And again this is all in economy class, back with the hoi polloi. I’ve only heard rumors of the Prestige and Sleeper classes.
We’ll go exploring soon.