De Train, Boss, De Train
12 October 2008Here I sit on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner, in business class (cool!), on my way to San Diego. Down in the baggage car is my bicycle. The plan was to take the bus to the Van Nuys Amtrak station, take the Surfliner to San Diego, meet my friend Larry, visit, bicycle about, and take the train back tomorrow (Monday.)  I’m posting this via my Verizon Wireless broadband card. Way cool to be able to have Internet access all the way to SAN.
The plan started to unravel when the bus came, and the bicycle rack was full. So with tears in my eyes, I pedaled off into the strong headwind to Van Nuys station. This worked out OK, and I got to the station about 20 minutes before the train was scheduled to arrive.
The plan almost unraveled again, when I discovered that the bicycle racks on the train was maxed out. Fortunately, there was a baggage car on the train, so I was able to store the bike there. The baggage car is an unusual occurance, and I almost had a major kink in my plans. Not sure what I would have done.
Well, we arrived at Union Station, and I discovered that the train reverses direction at this point. So the nice forward facing, shady side of the train, seat that I picked out is now a backwards facing, sunny side of the train seat. Oh well.
I’ll try to blog a bit after the trip progresses a bit.
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