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Try to get a room or at least stay in the station if it's open overnight. I just spent a night on the streets in Chicago. My body was already exhausted from 18 hours of train travel and spending the whole next day walking around the city. I put my stuff in a locker and forgot my coat. Ended up shivering away the night even in 70 degree fahrenheit because my sugar bottomed out to an extreme level. On top of that I was dodging someone who was pretty strung out and constant dog walkers at like 2 am at the park I settled at. Between the travel and that day, I ended up getting like 2 hours of sleep total in a 48 hour period. I have no clue how I survived the night to get around the next day, but it wasn't pretty. It put a physical toll on my trip that I could have avoided if I planned things better. The recovery took extra long too.