I’m leaving Maui Wednesday afternoon for a three-week mainland trip. From here I’m heading for Seattle where I will be meeting friends and family for a fabulous dinner at my favorite Italian restaurant, Assaggio. The next afternoon, I’ll board Amtrak’s Empire Builder heading east to see the Boston Red Sox play two games in each…
My school reunion was enjoyable and, as always, it was wonderful to see so many of my old classmates. The school certainly has changed over this last half-century; this current generation of kids has facilities and equipment of which we could never have conceived. And more power to them, too! But this morning I left…
This day is going to have a few uncertainties. We’re leaving Toronto tonight on VIA Rail’s trans-continental Train # 1, the Canadian, a four-night journey to Vancouver. But the departure time is 10:00 p.m. and we’ll have to check out of the Marriott Renaissance by noon. Furthermore, we have tickets to the final game of…
The next day at just after 10:00 a.m., Peter and I left Montreal aboard VIA Rail train #57 for the five-plus-hour ride to Toronto. I took this same train three or four years back. The equipment is the same and the on-board crew is the same, meaning they are quite competent in their duties and…