I’m going to the annual Fall meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers in Indianapolis next month. To get there, I’m flying from here to the Bay Area and taking Amtrak’s Coast Starlight to Seattle where I’ll connect with the Empire Builder to Chicago. I’ll overnight there, then take the Cardinal the next day…
Julie (Amtrak’s automated reservationist) reported that Train 11 would be a scant four minutes late arriving at Davis … and she was off by an hour. To be fair, that was just before I left for the station, so she may well have corrected herself as Number 11 got bogged down in rail traffic just…
The two-day meeting of the NARP Board of Directors is over and I’ll be leaving the hotel here in Evanston, Illinois, in about an hour to start my journey back home to Maui. Regulars here know that my favorite route back to the west coast is to take the California Zephyr, Amtrak’s Train…
Is there a more worrisome moment than when your computer stops working? Not in my book, there isn’t. And it happened to me yesterday morning. Turned on my Mac and it was very slow opening, then wouldn’t do anything. Ran perfectly the night before, but woke up broken. Go figure. I bought an Apple…