I was on various trains most of today. I took lots of photos, and posted them to my Mastodon account throughout the day, so I am not going to include them here because I need to get some sleep tonight because tomorrow is a regular (i.e. starts at 0530) work day, albeit only a half-day before I go for my annual physical.

( Train Tales )

VTA light rail is blockaded from Gish to Tasman stations, which includes the station in front of my hotel. I wanted to go get dinner (and tomorrow's lunch) from The City Fish again, so I had to use the bus bridge (route BB) operating between Baypointe and Civic Center stations.

( Tearing up the Tracks )

Today was the day for the trip to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. I had eventually picked out a route that would get me there early enough. Today I'd be spending a lot of time on trains and buses. Spoiler: I did get my visa application submitted with no hitches. The rest of this behind the cut is a mostly a bunch of transit geekery that ( Read more... )

I suppose I could have tried to do something ambitious today; however, I have decided to use this weekend for things like sleeping and taking it easy. I did use light rail to go down to Grocery Outlet and get such groceries as I could carry. This could be done on a single light rail tag-in, but it was sufficiently heavy that I had to take a while ( Read more... )

For getting around on light rail, Caltrain, and buses in the Bay Area, I have a Clipper Card, which is a stored-value card that auto-reloads from one of my credit cards when necessary. While I had not used it for a while, it worked just fine when I got here. So yesterday, I used it to right light rail to get some groceries, as there is very little ( Read more... )

This story is not about going to see A Spoonful of Sherman. Or rather it's a trip report going and coming, and if travel misadventures don't interest you, you can skip the cut tag now.

( Rail Adventures, Light and Heavy )

I had an early-morning dentist appointment in Redwood Shores, so I was up at 5:30 AM to I would be sure to be able to get there in plenty of time, which I did, arriving over an hour early. But I'm sure that had I left 30 minutes later, I would have been late - traffic was already slowing as I worked my way north from San Jose at 6:30 AM ( Read more... )

I have photos of my travel from Sacramento Valley Station (Amtrak) to the Sacramento Hilton Arden West (site of Westercon 66), but have not uploaded them yet. I want to get the story down before I lose track of details.

( It took almost as much time to get to the hotel as it did to get to Sacramento in the first place )

Saturday afternoon was the Westercon 64 committee meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose and the first time the committee walked the hotel. I reckon it looked a lot different the weekend before during FurCon ( Read more... )