Well I uploaded my last post as the conductor was calling six minutes to Bakersfield and going through the six different buses and their destinations meeting the train. I feel like I am about to get off the Rocky Mountaineer with all their buses for the tourists. We arrived a bit early at 7:26 and […]
Category: Winter 2012
Greetings from the San Joaquin (posting via its wi-fi) as I ride into the sunset and then darkness from Hanford down to Bakersfield where I’ll transfer to the Amtrak bus down to L.A, for the night. This morning began in Midpines where I took the one morning YARTS bus down at 6:20am, after the ten […]
Greetings from the Midpines, CA (MDP) Amtrak Thruway Bus (operated by YARTS) Stop! Yes I am spending the night directly at this stop since it is located at the entrance to the driveway of the Yosemitti Bug Youth Hostel whose stop location is described as being at the Hostel on Amtrak’s website (with the ridiculous […]
Greetings from Sacramento, California and the youth hostel here! I arrived here yesterday on the early California Zephyr from Salt Lake City that arrived 7 minutes early after being early across the entire Great Basin of Nevada giving me the opportunity to get a photo essay of the chain linked fence shack at Elko, Nevada […]
Greetings from Salt Lake City, home to TRAX and FrontRunner that have undergone major extensions since I was last here almost two years ago in March. I arrived here on Sunday night, flying in on JetBlue with my Dad during the Super Bowl, slightly ironically on their green plane painted for the New York Jets. […]