I moved my planned PTO day from Friday to today and headed up to San Francisco again. As it happens, from where I'm staying across from Karina Station on the VTA light rail system, the scheduled trip time to San Francisco is only one minute longer if I go north from Karina to Mountain View than if I go south to San Jose Diridon. In both cases, I ( Read more... )

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... )