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I will never remember this and I don't want to forget the craziness of this night... So the California Zephyr has almost always made it home early and so I got us unreserved tickets for a Capitol Corridor ticket for the 3:50... only we got to Emeryville at 4:10... 20 stinking minutes... The...

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After a nightmare “flucation” where I got hit with a Norovirus variation on the first flight on the first day, I really needed to get away before my job gets really busy again. We talked about multiple trips, including the California Zephyr but it was so overpriced, that we finally decided on a...

Just breaking..... train derailed near Niles Canyon.

A trip report on a beautiful but ummm…interesting trip. We left San Jose on our Southwest flight and 30 minutes in to the flight I got clobbered with the stomach flu. The bad news is that we had to transfer to another 2 hours flight from Denver to Milwaukee. All our plans for dinner with...

My friend killed herself in July and I have been in deep mourning. Since my cat is still battling congestive heart failure, I can't get away for long so my husband planned a day trip so that I could go have some peace and quiet and get away from all reminders and begin to process my broken...

Warning! It's going to be long.... I'm still working on it! Canada Via Rail Trip Report So it was supposed to be a bucket list trip…. and it was more challenging and more wonderful than I could have imagined. I always overbook and realized that when traveling with seniors that perhaps less...

We are leaping... a wonderful, crazy idea.... Halifax to Montreal...Montreal to Toronto (yes, we did pony up for business class a highly recommended by some :) ) and then Toronto to Vancouver... it will be May.... We should have some quick time and would like to power hit the city since we...

Hi folks, This may be more appropriate for what to do in Sacramento but I thought I'd share our day out. I knew that I wanted to go the the railroad museum since I love the locomotives all decorated and mister was agreeable so we decided on a day trip up to Sacramento. I had wanted to take...

I am posting a link to the pictures first... still blurry from our trip! An incredible bucket list trip missing only one thing: SNOW!! Mike was our attendant... incredible. Loved Stacy our LSA.... Our trip on the Zephyr was almost PV.... a VERY quiet trip.... except for a couple of...

A gem of an idea: An overnighter on the Skunk Train. We received a sad call on Thursday. The Fort Bragg segment had to be cancelled due to a blown head. We consulted with my mother and step-father and since we had hotel and restaurant reservations we moved on to Plan B: A day trip on the...

I know a lot of folks are fans of the California State Railroad Museum. The last time we were there, they mentioned their sister museum... Railtown 1897. It is a gem. It took us about 3 hours from our coastal town to drive up there. They offer a train ride - about an hour going up on the...

We had a great trip! The idea so this trip was a sorry my husband told about an early evening flight he took a on small prop plane down the coast of California during the 4th of July. I thought being on a train might turn out really neat - and with the SF Giants playing in San Diego - my...

Just got on board... Nanette is doing the wine tastings.... Cost is 7.50 per person, 3 wines and a larger pour.... Great job fighting the nickel and dimers!

So my husband and I were crabbing at each other.... not fighting... just the odd fussing... so in the end, he got what he needed and I got what I wanted... a photo op of the Coast Starlight as it went through the Elkhorn Slough... The first thing that went awry was that she was over 1.5 hours...

I'm in trouble... but I think I'm going to buy the store out! Super excited.... oh.... and matching hats too!!!!!

So I had a really lousy doctor's appointment and the only sure way to return my smile is .... a train trip! We were debating between the Coast Starlight to SLO and return or the Capitol Corridor. Since we knew the Coast Starlight trip would be really tight if everything went perfect, we...

Hi! So mr has agreed to the next great dream trip and I was hoping you all would be so kind as to help us out with all your amazing advice like you did with our last dream trip. All your advice added to so much to the last that I would be grateful! 1) According to my preliminary plotting...

Had a great run up to Reno on the Zephyr. We were watching the weather report and it looked like it was going to rain and snow like crazy so we went for it. While the snow moved south and we didn't get the snowstorm we had wanted, it was still just beautiful and any train trip is a great one...

LOL.... I didn't realize it would be a bad dream! Oh well, whatcha gonna do? If frogs start dropping from the sky, I'm getting airline reservations! I knew we were in trouble when our station opens at 10 and our bus was supposed to leave at 10:10. Our luck started with the way the...