Posted on August 7, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
SAN JOSE, California – The sun is out here in the Bay Area, but I can’t help opening this post with a tinge of melancholy.
California is the last of 17 states and my native District of Columbia that I’ve traveled through over the last seven days. While there are still 12 hours to go here [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
TACOMA, Wash. – I didn’t blog yesterday for two reasons. First, I spent most of the day fixing incorrect timestamps on the photos I took in Chicago, because I forgot to reset the time zone. It may seem trivial, but you’ll notice that the photoset of the trip is presented in chronological order. Since I’m [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2009 by offthebeatentrack
MANASSAS, Va. – That’s the view at the moment from inside Roomette 7 on the Cardinal.
It’s a pretty tight space, but not much more so than the Superliner Roomette I had on the California Zephyr last year. I’ll have that same accommodation on the Empire Builder to Seattle on Monday, and again on the Coast [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
DULLES, Va. – I was planning to write the last post on this blog before I left Oakland last night. I composed the whole thing and was about 30 seconds away from posting it when the flight crew said they had shut the door and all electronic devices needed to be turned off.
I set my [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
(Did you really expect me to use anything else for the headline?)
We finally reached Denver at around 11:30 a.m. MT. We spent about 20 minutes there, during which time the train was cleaned a bit and some supplies were restocked. We also got newspapers delivered, in this case the Rocky Mountain News.
I was a bit [...]
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