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California Transit Adventures

Delta Flight Home a CRJ to a 767 – The new BART to OAK Peoplemover to the Q10 Bus

After Riding the Redwood Valley Railway it was finally time to head home and end my (anti-)Epic Ski Trip What made this trip work was finding out that an open-jaw ticket to Jackson Hole and home from any major West Coast Airport would cost roughly $420. Unforchunately flying any of the non-stop flights out of […]

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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

An Hour Early, Empty California Zephyr down to the Marin Headlands Hostel, after a miserable conditions last day skiing Squaw/Alpine Meadows

This post covers my last days of skiing on my (anti-) Epic Ski Trip from January 16th (my full day at Squaw Valley) to January 17th taking the Zephyr down to the Bay Area where I transfer to a bus To Marin County. My one full day in Tahoe is probably my worst day of […]

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Transit Adventures

Sleeping well on an Amtrak Rommette from snowy Alta to needs snow Squaw, with a visit from a Reno drug detective

This is the forth part of my (anti-) Epic Ski Bum Trip. It covers January 14th through 15th, 2015. I wake-up for my final day of skiing knowing I’ll finally be getting on Amtrak to head to Tahoe where it despirately needs snow tonight. I’m still only ticketed to Reno but with so little time […]

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Rockies Region Transit Adventures

The Van Shuttle to Salt Lake City (to do the S-Line) for Three Days of Powder Skiing

This post covers Sunday, January 11th through 13th, 3 Days Skiing Alta Snowbird on my (anti-)Epic Ski Bum Adventure The next stop on my (anti-)Epic, Mountain Collective Skiing Adventure is Salt Lake City, specifically to ski AltaSnowbird. To get there are two options Alltrans (the airport shuttle companies) Mountain States Express that makes a daily […]

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Transit Adventures

Finally Flying to Jackson Hole! 33 Hours of Travel Time!

I’m finally back in New York and will slowly be finishing the trip reports of my (anti)-Epic Ski Bum Trip when I was having too good a time skiing and hanging out to update this blog, a real vacation! Thursday January 8th, 2015: I could have flown to Zimbabwe or Perth, Australia in the amount […]

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Rockies Region Transit Adventures

A Pleasant First Class Flight to Salt Lake City to a Flight to Nowhere Above Fogged in Jackson Hole

I leave the UnitedClub at 1:10 and find out my next flight is in the F Gates. this is the new international terminal. I take the train out there to the airy modern terminal that only opened a couple of years ago. I go up to the gate agent, show him my long receipt with my reconfirmed […]

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Transit Adventures

An Easy Trip to LGA for a delayed Delta Flight to Atlanta, Making for an 19 hour day to Jackson Hole

Greetings from the UnitedClub in Atlanta where I shouldn’t be (I should be airborne for Salt Lake City) Well I’m off on another Ski Trip using a Mountain Collective Pass that will see me going to Jackson Hole, followed by Alta Snowbird, the train to Squaw Valley and then flying home from San Francisco. What […]