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 […]
Tag: Capital Corridor
I have two goals for my full day in Sacramento, going up to Auburn, the commuter oriented destination of the Capital Corridor with one train (and many buses) per day north of Sacramento and riding the new green line out to its terminus at 7th/Richards Township. I know I can finally take a morning really […]
I spend the morning with the relative I’m staying with in the Berkeley Hills. We have a near catastrophe after her dryer fails and I’m stuck bringing damp laundry with me to Sacramento. The goal of the day is to get an Amtrak AGR points quafecta using the last two segments of my ticket from […]
Today I’m on the move again from San Francisco to spend the night and see a relative who lives up in the Berkeley Hills far away from public transit. I have a nice chat at breakfast in the hostel that is definitely now my hostel of choice in San Francisco even though its a bit […]