For the most part, the coach seats are pretty quiet. People tend to chat in the sightseer’s lounge and the dining car. Otherwise, the coach car is effectively a bedroom just with many beds in it. Mostly people don’t sit next to each other, so there is one person to every pair of seats. Those […]

When I began planning this extended vacation in California, I saw that the Santa Clara Vanguard birthday dinner was last Sunday, so I anchored the end of my trip around that. I spent my last two nights in CA at my Vanguard buddy, Erik’s apartment in San Francisco. Someone said that our actions only make […]

I got let go from my new job two days before Em and I left for a trip to Las Vegas to see her family and then California to see my mom and grandma. We planned the vacation for a week, and Em had to return to work for the next Monday, but I had […]