I couldn't include this video yesterday because my phone was stubborn about uploading the video that I shot at the Reno station, but here is Amtrak #5 arriving Reno with Lisa on board. What I didn't realize was that Lisa was in the third car behind the baggage car, so my back was turned to her when she got off the train.


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91 days after Lisa and I left Reno on the eastbound California Zephyr, she arrived on the westbound CZ, traveling via New Mexico.

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As of when I'm composing this message, Amtrak 5, the westbound California Zephyr that Lisa boarded on Tuesday afternoon, departed about 30 minutes late out of Grand Junction, Colorado, but Amtrak's system projects that they will make up some of that time by Salt Lake City. If the train is on time, it should pass Fernley tomorrow morning around 8 AM ( Read more... )

Lisa called me this morning from her hotel using her calling card (remember, she has no mobile phone) to let me know she was checking out and hauling her luggage the ~850 m down to Union Station. The plan was for her to hang out in the Metropolitan Lounge until her train left at 2 PM Chicago time. When Union Station remodeled a few years ago, they ( Read more... )

Today is Lisa's final full day in Chicago. She's still very tired and very much wanting to be home. Today she double-checked the route from the hotel to Union Station (there's apparently a lot of road construction in the area). The people with the crying baby and the screaming kids appear to have left, so she was able to get some sleep ( Read more... )

There were no travel crises today with Team Kuma Bear (and Lisa) other than the neighboring hotel room included a baby that cried a lot, night and day, and another pair of rooms across the hall that seemed to contain several older children who spent the day running back and forth between the rooms yelling a lot. Fortunately, after Lisa came back ( Read more... )

Just before 06:00 my time, Chris Carson called me from his room in the hotel in Chicago (a few doors down from Lisa's room). He filled me in on his side of yesterday's madness. He'd not been able to get into the hotel internet either, and he told me that the hotel hoped to have that fixed today ( Read more... )

Lisa and Chris left downtown Reykjavik around 12:30 local time there today, taking the bus to Keflavik Airport. According to Lisa, it took a very long time to get their boarding passes, and even though they were there as early as they were told to be, by the time they finally managed to get their passes and clear Terrorization and make it to their ( Read more... )

After a warm spell (albeit not the heat wave that hit parts of California a week ago), we're having the first real cold snap of autumn, with temperatures going down below freezing tonight. Having put away the swamp cooler a few days ago, I today got out the space heater and set it up in the living room ( Read more... )

The Norröna docked at Seyðisfjörður this morning (09:00 UTC). It turns out that the bus that gets you over to Egilsstaðir Airport (EGS) picks people up at the ferry port. I saw nothing on the Smyril Lines website or anything else I researched, so I had been working on the assumption that they would need to make their way to the bus stop around 850 ( Read more... )