Dawn looked out the window hopelessly as the train rolled over the Syria border. Her black lab, Billy, sat next to her, his tongue hanging out in exhaustion. Dawn was remembering her long boring journey from California headed to Iraq. First, she got on a bus from her house in Sacramento, to the train station, which took about an hour and a half. Then at the train station, she boarded the train. Dawn took the train from California to New York. There she got off the train and boarded a boat after she received her heavy luggage and made sure ....