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California Transit Adventures

Visiting the ARTIC and riding the Expo Line to the Sea on a quick trip to Dinseyland

About a month ago Louise ā€“ a Disneyland fanatic ā€“ and I went on a quick 48 hour trip by plane out to Los Angeles to use up two free Dinseyland tickets that we had. What also made the trip possible was an intro promo from Upside a new package deal website that made the […]

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Amtrak California Transit Adventures

Sitting in the Empty Superliner on the San Joaquin from Sacramento to Bakersfield to the bus to Montclair to finish the San Bernardino Metrolink Line ā€“ Finishing Riding Every Inch of Amtrak in California!

My original plan for the trip after me and my Dad decided to go skiing at Squaw Valley (before we knew about the lack of snow, in November when we were planning the trip) was to send Dad home and spend a couple days in Northern California, a couple days in Southern California to finish […]

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Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette

Stowaways on the Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink from San Diego to L.A. (with 2 stops) and doing the Expo Line

After two days attending the wedding up at Lake Arrowhead and then driving down to San Diego to attend a Padres Game. On Sunday in San Diego I am off to resume my major Amtrak adventure who’s main attraction would be four nights in sleepers on my AGR points from Phoenix, Arizona to St. Paul, […]

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Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette

The LA Metro to the Red, Blue to Green Lines to LAX to meet my Brother to Metrolink out to San Bernardino to a MARTA minibus up to Lake Arrowhead

The main reason for this trip is to attend a wedding of a cousin out in the Mountains just south of San Bernardino. my parents have gone out a day earlier, and my brother is arriving this morning. Being me I’ve figured out we can take Metrolink to San Bernardino to Mountain Area Regional Transit […]

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Winter 2012

My Long-Weekend in L.A: a Fun $10 Metrolink Weekend doing the Antelope Valley and San Bernardino Lines, plus finishing Ventura County

My long-weekend in Los Angeles consisted of doing as much of Metrolink as I could using their new $10 weekend pass in particular. I had also thought about doing a station to station of the Orange Line Transitway (a bus line that runs almost entirely in its own transitway with quite genuine station platforms that […]

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Winter 2012

Finishing off the Rail Stations of Orange County!

Hello from Irvine, CA, where Iā€™m am staying with relatives at U.C. Irvine! I arrived here yesterday and spent the day finishing off the northern Orange County stations (on my last trip last March I got Orange County from San Juan Capistrano and south, including all of San Diego County). The day began with a […]