A Daze

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

OK, another Update!

So now I have left Laguna and returned to San Clemente where I am residing in a nice house with a beautiful view! Washer and Dryer included, huge yard, closer to San Onofre. Life is Ok.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

I moved last week and am now living in Laguna Beach. That makes the drive to San Onofre about 25 minutes. longer than I would like, but shorter than it could be. I will continue to make my almost daily trek but will keep my eye on the weather and only go when the conditions are favorable.

I moved into a funky old house is the best way I can describe it. Converted attic with two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bathroom. I share the place with a friend who has lived here for 17 years. Rent is very reasonable considering I am about a block from Main Beach. Traffic will be terrible come summer, but I will have to adjust and live with it.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

That's all!

That's all the pictures I found that were halfway fit to post. All-in-all the trip was a blast. One thing though, sleeping on a train is not my cup of tea. I got one fair night of sleep out of the four I spent on the train. It feels like an earthquake that never ends, at least when you are trying to sleep. Other than that, the ride was fun. One the return trip, we were blessed to have Richard as our sleeper car attendant, he took great care of us, especially my dad and stepmother.

When we boarded the train in Sacramento, I went to my 'roomette' as it is called, only to find that someone had been in there and spilled coffee all over one of the seats, the one that faced forward and the one I wanted to sit in. I had my roomette changed to a different one, in the other sleeper car. This turned out to be a good thing, as the bathrooms in the other car stopped working once we hit some elevation. They had a flushing mechanism triggered by lowering the seat lid. In my car, the toilets all had push button mechanisms that continued to work throughout the trip. My dad decided to change rooms to one in my car as the stench was overbearing.

On the return trip, we were once again in a car that had the lid flush. Richard, the attendant, informed us that we would need to reset the toilets every time they were used if we wanted a smell free trip. He took someone from every room or roomette and showed us how to flip the switch to reset, down on the main breaker box. We had an odor free return. Mahalo, Richard!

On the first leg, we stopped in Denver for a servicing of the train. It was about 7:00 in the evening and it was about 76 degrees! I expected it to be cold! After all, it's a mile high! I couldn't believe how warm it was.

Chicago was fun. 54 degrees and as normal, quite windy. We stayed at a nice hotel and had a great meal in a restaurant in the hotel. Since we arrived at about 3:00 in the afternoon, the next morning I walked around the city a bit. I really am not a big city kind of person, but it was fun looking at all the tall buildings. When I returned, we went for pizza! I expected more and was kind of disappointed. Maybe it's where we went, but there was nothing special about the pizza, I've had as good here in San Clemente.

On the trip I saw caribou, buffalo, deer and I think a cougar. Lots of trash in New Mexico, beautiful mountains in Nevada, and a lot of flat farmland in the midwest. It was well worth the trip.