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 […]
Tag: San Joaquin
Introduction: The biggest thing on my list to do while in the Bay Area is to ride the California Comets. These cars are ex-NJT Comaro Cars, that are now on basically their third lives after the state of California bought them to try and alleviate a massive car shortage their currently having. These cars run on […]
Yesterday, I had an excellent day seeing the tourist sites of Yosemite, the night not so good. We lack camping equipment and the Germans have been spending their trip arguing about sleeping in their car or not. We end up running into a few folks who they met in San Francisco (staying the Fisherman’s Wharf […]
The goal of my final weekday in the Bay Area was simple, finish ACE and Caltrain. I was dithering about whether Caltrain would be easier to get via bus (a SamTrans day pass for $6, plus probably a little extra for BART one way) or train ($10 for a 2 zone day pass). I ended […]
Greetings from the late evening San Joaquin train approaching Richmond that I am taking for a final night in California (San Francisco) before I head north to Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and then across on VIA’s Canadian. This trip started this morning with a ride from the old family friends I was staying with to the […]
Presidents Day results in transit systems following different schedules and my research found weekend service on CalTrain with a few more Baby Bullet Express trains but full weekday service on VTA Light Rail in San Jose. I unfortunately did not get myself up early enough at the youth hostel for the one morning Baby Bullet […]
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 […]
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 […]