I’ll be on this train for … call it 19 hours. Also, it would appear that I’m heading for San Fran Fish, in West California. Makes sense; Western California would be damp. Could have gone with a sleeper, but it…

Part of the Plan For Portland was to figure out the approximate plan for the next bit. Well, that didn’t happen like I expected. Getting to Yosemite turned out to be possible without a car, but tricky, and Amtrak’s system…

Part of the big question of this trip was “Can I do an extended trip without having a plan in place?”. It turns out that the answer is a very qualified yes; I can do it, but I’m really bad at…

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure that this is a reliable source, but for what it’s worth, here it is. The hotel is nice, and seems to be what I needed after a sleep-light time in Seattle. There is art.…

I slept like absolute crap last night. Dreadful. Not helped by an enormous amount of noise outside, and someone pointing their bed-lamp out the window & straight at the window of the room I was in, so there was about…

Last full day in Seattle, and the thing I had to get done was printing off my train ticket to Portland. Fortunately, an opportunistic wander past an Amtrak Quik-Trac machine (not convinced I’ve spelled that correctly, but I’m also pretty…

Today I did tourist things, and went on a tour of the Boeing Factory in Everett, WA. Where I was not run over by an aircraft engine, despite how this looks. As you can see, this is merely part of a…

I’ve been sleeping badly here, and last night was no exception, so it took me forever to get started. On the plus side, having a very late coffee allowed me to see the flood of Seahawks fans on their way…

I’ll admit it, I’m hazy on what EMP stands for in this context. OK, I looked it up It’s the Experience Music Project museum. I didn’t sleep well last night, so it was something of a late start. I made…

This is my second hostel of the US trip, and the first Hostelling International hostel, so it’s the first time my HI card has actually gotten any use. The level of luxury isn’t up to the Freehand Chicago, but I…