Capital Corridor train #744 arrives into Santa Clara-University–(20 Photos) a few minutes late. I board one car that’s crowded and walk back to the empty last car just behind the locomotive as we depart at 6:00, 4 minutes late. The conductor comes and scans my ticket, asking “Are there two of you?” When both of my […]
Year: 2014
Bay Area Needs, Introduction: For my day in the Bay Area I debated just riding BART around a bit (for under three hours, the maximum time your allowed to ride on a single fare) to finish some things before heading into San Francisco to enjoy the evening before taking the bus to a Capital Corridor […]
Introduction: The biggest thing on my list to do while in the Bay Area is to ride the California Comets. These cars are ex-NJT Comaro Cars, that are now on basically their third lives after the state of California bought them to try and alleviate a massive car shortage their currently having. These cars run on […]
Me and my Dad still decided to ski one-day only at Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows and were very happy with the decision. The extreme draught in the Lake Tahoe area means that the only runs open are those that the ski area can blast with snow making. This equaled about 5 at Squaw Valley (4 lifts) […]
Introduction: The original plan when me and my Dad planned this segment of the trip back in November was to ski Alta for two days and then ski Squaw Valley for two days, take an Amtrak Roomette to Truckee and then ski Squaw Valley for two days. These two ski areas are both included on […]
I had an excellent two days skiing at Jackson Hole and staying at the hostel. I was in a four bed shared dorm with two nice Quebecois the first night who left at 4:00am and then, strangely, the room all to myself the final two nights. You can’t beat the price of $40 per night […]
What made my little side-trip to Jackson Hole before going to Salt Lake City to meet my Dad was the fact Jackson Hole had a hostel and finding an only $200 flight directly there. Normally their close to $500-$600. The downside to a $200 flight was that it had two connections with 50 minutes in […]
Introduction: I start graduate school in two weeks. I am spending my last two weeks before it starts going on a trip out west that is partially a mid-winter ski trip and ending with some sun in Arizona. Don’t worry there will be plenty of train rides including finding the ex-NJT ComArrows Amtrak California has […]
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Update: Santa Clara and San Jose
The reason I haven’t gotten any updates out lately is the fact I’m working on a couple grandiose projects for the website. One of which is finally getting Caltrain up on the web, a project I started a few months ago, stopped and am now, finally, coming back to hammer it out and finish. This […]
This post was supposed to go live yesterday (the last day of 2013) but mostly Chinese (I know from looking up stats of their origins) spammers had other ideas and my webhost suspended my website for using too many resources. Over the past month or so the amount of Spam from comments on this blog […]