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Got to Get on the Road to California

Destination: California, USA

Book: Kiss the Sunset Pig (2006) by Laurie Gough

A GUEST POST by Claire Algarme

It is a smooth ride along California Interstate-5 while I gaze out at the beautiful landscape before me. I am on a thruway bus going to Bakersfield where I will ride the Amtrak. My friends think I am out of my mind by taking the train to San Francisco — all by myself — when it was only my first time in California, let alone in the United States.

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Waiting on A Train

Waiting for a Train
Waiting for a Train

Destination: Anywhere the train goes

Book: Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service by James McCommons (released Nov.5)

My brother-in-law, Wayne Price is a foamer. My sister doesn’t deny it, although he might. I know that he has filled an entire room with an exquisite miniature railroad, all scenery made by hand, and I know that he reads several train magazines and even wrote an article for one, but I would never have called him a foamer, had it not been for this new book. Continue reading Waiting on A Train