Thankfully it wasn't a ricochety train. The advantages of a long train trip here is that most of the trains the few big long lines we fit into the country are decent trains nowadays. Not the most modern, but enough to ride smoothly and have AC working (at least most of the time :)).

I've managed to pick up cross stitch properly shortly before my great aunt died - she was the fiber arts wiz in our family. Mom got taught crochet by her, but it's mostly muscle memory for her now - not enough for her to properly teach me, so it's on me to figure out the thing mostly on my own. But hey, it's still learning it even if it's a not the best way to learn it that could have been!