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This post is in response to a challenge from Elly. A friend and I spent 4 weeks seeing America via Amtrak in 2001. We saw some wonderful sights, and met some lovely people, but the thing we saw the most of was the inside of railway stations and bus terminals. Arrival times were usually in the early hours of the morning, with long hours to wait for a connection. At first we were reluctant to nod off; we often saw railway police moving homeless people on, and we were worried about our bags. In Philadelphia (a magnificent railways station) we noticed that they left these people alone, so we joined them. This is us, catching up on a few zzzs.

The photo was taken for us with my camera by a lovely policeman. It was 5 a.m. before the they began moving people on, us included – obviously wanting to clear the way for commuters - and we realised that regardless of what we'd seen and read, Philadelphia is a city with a heart.