Traxter 6
If you’re starting with this post, here’s background: back in January I bought an Amtrak USA Rail Pass on sale for $299. Here are the rules and conditions. I researched and assembled an itinerary, which so far has brought zero glitches. I’m combining trains with rental cars. Segment 7 of 10 begins in Kansas […]
Traxter 5
Of all the possible tugster variants, I’d never expected this mutation, but I hope you’re enjoying this traxcentric report on a journey as much as I’m enjoying the journey. This part 5 is based on three [technically two] Amtrak segments from Alpine TX to Oklahoma City OK, i.e., Sunset Limited, Texas Eagle and Heartland Express. […]
Traxter 4
The Sunset Limited is quite the daunting trip, and I only took half of it: NOL to Alpine TX. On the map below, Alpine is about halfway across the route. It’s the jumping off point for Big Bend NP, my reason to debark there, but that’s another post . . . another blog even. Click […]
Traxter 3
Step 3 started here in Chicago Union Station, or as Amtrak calls it, CHI, and ends in NOL. You know the song. Since Train 59 departed after dark, the first photos I got were here, Loosahatchee River, just north of Memphis. What I’ve learned is that when on WiFi, photos do not identify location taken. […]
Traxter 2
Step 2 on my USA Railpass runs from ROC to CHI, as Amtrak abbreviates the stations. Since my train departed after dark, here’s all I have. I passed through Cleveland, and an area of Cleveland over the Cuyahoga I know somewhat, at 0400. That brightly colored tower is Terminal Tower. Sunrise happened west of Toledo […]
Traxter 1
Welcome to my March 2023 avatar . . traxster, traveling my own defined 5000+ loop around the US on a USA Rail Pass, which gives me 30 days and ten steps as defined by Amtrak. See here if you want more. Background on Amtrak here. Amtrak defines routes by names as here. Traxter 1 and […]
Jaunt ’24 a
Unrelated: To understand what likely happened in Baltimore, watch this 6-minute video from Sal, up just a couple hours after the incident: as a friend wrote, Sal is the best. Today’s post: For the next few weeks, I’ll follow a planned, circuitous route back home to the sixth boro from the Pacific side by car […]
Road Photos 2023 A
As the crow flies, this post covers a 1000-mile trip, and I zagged and zigged enough to double that distance. More than half the trip was done by train, as accounted for in Traxter 5. Let’s start by heading south for the Rio Grande, the place of much current attention. When I was there, the […]
Jaunt ’24 i
I’m back in the borough of Queens. Here are some jaunt numbers: an initial 2450 miles by air to San Diego, and then alternating car and train journeys that racked up 5000 miles and 4000 miles respectively. Amtrak’s railpass provides a good framework to build a journey around the US with; building that tour carefully […]
Landmarks 4 Follow-up
I’ll start with Landmarks 4, which had these snaps from the past. First in July 2003, voila the castle as seen from the Channel, looking roughly east. Notice the lower wall and the upper wall with four sides, which I’ll call west, north, and east and south sides not visible. [Sidenote: I remember taking this […]
tugster: a waterblog 