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My preference is to stay in Emeryville. Specifically at the Hyatt House. I'd rather walk the few hundred feet from the hotel to EMY station at 8am than hang around curbside on Mission St in San Francisco before 7am waiting for a bus. Plus, if your westbound train arrives to EMY late you will be...

I am sorry for your loss. Good for you getting to the point where you are ready for this adventure again! In Emeryville I would heartily recommend the Hyatt House Hotel. You take the pedestrian overpass from the Amtrak platform and you are in the hotel parking lot.

That ramp entrance is open for business. If they are getting a taxi and drop off on Clinton at the Jackson intersection there are no steps to get to the great hall that way. @Tldmat - once you are in the great hall just look for the 'to trains' sign. If you go that way a few steps you will find...

CS 14 seems to be originating in EMY today (shows cancelled for northbound trips south of there), but the yesterday's southbound 11 is still showing as good to arrive to LAX today.

You caught my feelings on it perfectly Matthew. Last year I got the $300 sale pass and spent 30 days riding the Crescent southbound, Sunset Limited, Southwest Chief, Zephyr, Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, Lakeshore Limited to Boston, a NER, and then the Carolinian. I spent many days watching...

It's a thicket of info for sure. Glad to hear you figured it out. It's similar to a couple of other NC counties where I have gone down a rabbit hole of plats, maps, deeds and transfers.

It looks like the deeds <1982 are not indexed, hence the missing date. The depot GIS property record shows a deed reference of: book 3123, page 69. If you look that up in the non-indexed deeds section of the Guilford Real Estate records site, it shows a quit claim transfer of ~1.9 acres on E...

EMY has baggage storage. Just ask at the counter, pay $10 per bag and they will hold it for 24 hours.

The North Carolina state fair has a seasonal stop - NSF.

Davis is worth considering if you want a smaller town. Or Sacramento for a bigger city.

Like Septa9739 said, it depends on what you want. Is it transportation to the destinations, or is if the rides/miles that are your goal? I just did 13k miles in 27 days on the pass. Rode all the long distance routes I could manage, and it was fantastic. After 2 days at home I would have gone...

Maybe I got lucky, but riding 6 LD routes end to end and part of 2 others last month there were only a couple of rides with really trashed restrooms in coach. One route (pretty sure it was SWC) the attendant cleaned and restocked the restrooms 6 or more times on the trip, and announced each...

South side (left on the westbound) seemed better overall to me. I was on it last week and was happy to be on the left side most of the time. It seemed like Glenwood Canyon specifically, and the climb over the Sierra Nevada were a bit better on the North side (right). Fortunately we had some...

No Parcel Check available today. The reason given was that they don't have an area to secure the bags. Kinda lame. The ticketing guy recommended an app called StoreMe, but there were no nearby locations. Fortunately an app called Bounce has a similar service, and one of the locations was a...

Different region, but I just did this on a Capitol Corridor train in Oakland. I was a bit early and my train and the one before were delayed. When the earlier train pulled in I asked the conductor if it would be ok for me to ride. He said sure and told me which car. No hesitation, no problem...

Yeah, that's what I expected. I was on the 8 from Seattle, but when we joined the Portland route they had no cafe.

On the Eastbound EB (departed Seattle 2/12) in coach, and no Cafe/Lounge is a huge bummer. They are providing some snacks from the dining car at least. I'm on a big USA Pass trip and this is the first real drag in all the LD routes so far. Edit: Hilarious. Just as I get done complaining they...