The year ended with a variation on an activity I really enjoyed earlier in 2012 – once again, I took the vintage sleeper cards down to San Diego. But this time, I was joined by 3 more friends, and a whole extra car, the Overland Trail that has served me well on many wine train [...]
Uh oh. I wish someone would have warned me, because I think I’ve become addicted to train travel. In retrospect, I shouldn’t be surprised. I used to love getting on the old Erie Lackawana to visit the big city, and my first overnight train – a trip to Orlando – was a great adventure spent [...]
Continue reading about An Overnight To San Diego on Pullman Sleepers
Maybe it was sheer luck. Maybe it was fate. Whatever the force was that caused me to stumble across the website of LARail.com, I am grateful to it. For it introduced me to the Santa Barbara Vino Train. I knew I had to experience it when I read about it. And when I saw availability [...]
Continue reading about All Aboard the Santa Barbara Vino Train!
The Pineapple Express from Hawaii … “strongest storm in a decade”… It had been raining 24 hours straight and today promised a full day more. I had a choice: stay under the covers all day – and it was mighty tempting – or venture out into the rain. Fortunately, I was feeling adventurous and had [...]
Continue reading about Rainy Weekend Spurs Train Ride to MONA
(a continuation of last week’s post) I won’t write too much about the Grand Canyon itself because (1) words can’t begin to do it justice and (2) that’s not the focus of this blog. But it was a great weekend of hiking, exploring and relaxing. For anyone making the trip by train, I recommend the [...]
While this adventure may seem to have a rather tenuous LA connection, there’s actually a pretty solid one. The Super Chief, brought people to Los Angeles when air travel was still an expensive novelty. I’ve always wanted to experience what those rides must have been like. And a Memorial Day trip to the Grand Canyon [...]
Continue reading about LA to Grand Canyon Aboard The Southwest Chief
