Categories
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, […]

Categories
Winter 2012

Continuing My Way Down the Coast to LA Getting 6 More Stations

Greetings from Horizons Car #54552 that amazingly has been outfitted with AmtrakConnect. I am riding it the final distance to LA-Union Station where my baggage has hopefully already arrived. This car is on the one single-level old school Pacific Surfliner (San Diegan) train that is a strange consist of Cabbage #90208, Amfleet-I BuisinessClass, and must […]

Categories
Winter 2012

Starting down the Coast and Surfliner, the Coast Starlight to Paso Robles and the city bus down to Grover Beach (plus missing the last bus to Guadalupe)

Greetings from San Luis Obispo! and the nice little youth hostel here! Todays was the time to head back down the coast to tackle the northern half of the Pacific Surfliner mostly by city bus. I debate taking an early bus to get to Paso Robles at 10:40 but decide to take the Coast Starlight […]

Categories
Winter 2012

A Non-Detoured Coast Starlight Ride up to San Francisco (was scheduled via Tahachapi)

This Post I Pre-dated on February 22, 2012, the date I traveled: When Amtrak first announced the detour via Tahachapi I was quite disappointed, it would run northbound only during the first week of February not when I was out in California. Then it was extended to four more dates the second week and I […]

Categories
Winter 2012

Finishing off the Rail Stations of Orange County!

Hello from Irvine, CA, where I’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 […]