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Tennessee to Texas

3 Full Days of Museums (plus riding its light rail) in Houston

For my first day in Houston I had a small breakfast of toast and biscuits (an item I had never encountered at a hostel breakfast before). I next went walking and ended up finding the light rail. The Houston Light Rail is the only modern one in the country (Pittsburg is the other, I’ll end […]

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Tennessee to Texas

A Friendly Sunset Limited to Houston, Running into a Previous Amtrak Dining Companion

I stopped for breakfast which I ate quickly and was worrying about being late. Had I already had a ticket I wouldn’t of worried so much but I didn’t see a Quick-Trak machine when it was in the station. I rushed over and arrived at 8:35. There was a long line to board but the […]

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Tennessee to Texas

A Full (Stomach and Train) Ride on the City of New Orleans from Memphis to its namesake

My day leaving Memphis I knew would be early, the City of New Orleans leaves at 6:50am. MATA luckily has quite decent weekday service but I had to walk south a few blocks since the first trip on the 2 would arrive in downtown too late. I woke up a little after 5am and walked […]

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Tennessee to Texas

A Good Day in Memphis with a Bad Moment Due to the Old Bus Schedule in my Pocket

Well, Howdy again From Memphis! I had a fairly good day sightseeing here but one terrible moment in the middle of the day due to tourism information having given me an old inaccurate bus schedule. It began fairly early when I had a nice 2 mile walk out to the Pink Palace Museum, an odd […]

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Tennessee to Texas

A Chatty and Long Greyhound and MATA Ride into Memphis

Greetings from Memphis and the cheapest (only $15 a night) but really quite nice on the top floor of a church hostel I have ever stayed in. There is nothing religious about it, I was really skeptical of the place when I reserved my bed. Yesterday, I had a fairly quiet full day in Nashville. […]

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Tennessee to Texas

A Greyhound Aventure to Nashville and Riding the Music City Star

Howdy from Nashville! Well if the MegaBus Stop in Chattanooga is inconvenient, the Greyhound Stanton is in the middle of nowhere. It is out by the airport. There is a bus route that serves it directly but only six times a day on a round about route that seemed unnecessary. I could have taken MegaBus […]

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Tennessee to Texas

A Good Day in Baltimore, an uncomfortable MegaBus Ride through the Night and Exploring Knoxville and Chattanooga!

Greetings from Chattanooga! I had a fairly good day in Baltimore. There the police department must have gotten the Civil Liberties Union Message a year ago regarding photography not being illegal and a Civil Right. I just had one station agent tell me no pictures before I called up customer service who said its fine […]

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Tennessee to Texas

Tennessee to Texas to Missouri, my next Adventure has Begun!

Greetings from Amtrak Northeast Regional Train #141 which is speeding me presently to Baltimore, on the fastest day on the second train of my just 3 hours old month long trip to Tennessee, Texas, Missouri and back to Colorado. I have learned that I don’t really like planning my trips way ahead, it does often […]

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Transit Adventures

A 1200 AGR points day for just $46 ($23 to each train company) to Hartford via Metro North and Amtrak’s Shuttle and Vermonter

This week is AGR Triple Point week in honor of National Train Day (I’ll be at Grand Central of course). If I lived in a place with a cheep corridor train (for example Philadelphia with the unreserved Keystone, $6.50 for 300 points out to Paoli) I would be trying to ride it quite a few […]

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Transit Adventures

A Day of Walking in Jersey and visiting 7 more stations, finishing the Bergen County Line from Allendale South

Well today I went on another New Jersey adventure to keep adding to my collection of stations and am now almost complete with the Bergen County Line except for the Ramseys! Taking the bus into Jersey from the GWB Bus terminal is my go to when I am in the mood for some station photography […]