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Omaha: What's wrong with this picture?3 comments

galan05 wrote 1 week ago: Platform, Omaha train station, 2009. Photo by Walt Baranger So I’m sitting in a hospital lobby … more →

Tags: General, Rail Travel, rants, France, tgv, Shinkansen, Amtrak, Japan, Omaha

Meeting Buda On the Road...

John Acurso wrote 3 weeks ago: As I traveled around the country, covering all those miles I traveled before, there was one thing … more →

Tags: Across the West, Americans, Great American Road Trip, Midwest, Photography, Road Trip, bar, HEARTLAND, Hospitality

Day 28/29-The End is Near1 comment

John Acurso wrote 2 months ago: Your Lottery Dollars at Work It seems that I have just been moving along quite rapidly these past fe … more →

Tags: Across the West, Americans, Great American Road Trip, Photography, Road Trip, John Acurso, Landscape Photography, HEARTLAND, Midwest

Day 25/26 &27

John Acurso wrote 2 months ago: Motel Office where I met Darrell Today, I am about 5 days from finishing this trip.  In some ways, I … more →

Tags: Across the West, Americans, Great American Road Trip, Photography, Road Trip, John Acurso, Lodging, Motels, Nevada

Day 17/18/19 &20-23 & 24

John Acurso wrote 2 months ago: Essentially, I am back on the road again, the 24th day driving down to Reno to recatch the Zephyr ro … more →

Tags: Across the West, Americans, Great American Road Trip, Photography, Road Trip, Car Trouble, John Acurso, Nevada, Photo

California Zephyr: From San Francisco to Chicago

Bibek wrote 2 months ago: “My kids tell me to get in shape,” an elderly man on board the train said. “I am in shape. It … more →

Tags: California, Travel, Chicago, Amtrak, train

Day 7-Flying High!

John Acurso wrote 2 months ago: Most of the weekend, except for the races, people seemed rather scarce around here.  Seemed they mus … more →

Tags: Road Trip, Photography, Great American Road Trip, Across the West, John Acurso, HEARTLAND, Midwest, Americans, Photo

Day 5-A Race around the Loop

John Acurso wrote 3 months ago: This will be short as it is really late and I am really tired. Today I stayed in Corning Iowa for th … more →

Tags: Road Trip, Photography, Great American Road Trip, Across the West, Midwest, Americans, John Acurso, Photo, Labor Day

Day Two: The Take Down3 comments

John Acurso wrote 3 months ago: Omaha, Nebraska — 9/02/09 — I slept really well last night and woke up to an overcast mo … more →

Tags: Road Trip, Photography, Motels, Across the West, Midwest, Large Things, Americans, Hospitality, small town

Why travel when you have the internet!

John Acurso wrote 3 months ago: So, it is only a week now and I will be on the road again!   A whole month, or so, to just wander ar … more →

Tags: Road Trip, Photography, Amtrak, Great American Road Trip, Across the West, John Acurso, Landscape Photography, Trains, Midwest

Train Dream

donnatrussell wrote 3 months ago: I’m back home, and soon I’ll be catching up on my Long Strange Trip dispatches. In the m … more →

Tags: Music, TV & Film, Travel, train trip, Colorado, canyon, desert, "allen dobb"

2009 Summer Vacation part I: Train Trip1 comment

reginachennault wrote 4 months ago: 6/14/09 Sunday: We boarded the 9:30am Chicago bounded Amtrak from Emeryville Station. Everyone was e … more →

Tags: Family, 2009 Vacation: Train Trip, Amtrak, train trip, 2009 summer vacation, Chennault family

The Choo-Choo Diaries: A ‘Salon In Motion’ On The California Zephyr

munsonmunson wrote 5 months ago: Matt Dellinger of The Infrastructurist brings us this article on his adventures on the California Ze … more →

Tags: New Urbanism, Commentary, Denver, Seaside, Robert Davis, -John Anderson, Mall of America, william lind

Jon Hammond on KCSM 91.1 FM with Chris Cortez and HammondCast 18 KYOURADIO and KYCY Jazz Blues and Soft News

hammondcast wrote 7 months ago: HammondCast 18 KYOU Radio and KYCY *LISTEN TO HammondCast 18 AUDIO Here: HammondCast 18 from NYC tel … more →

Tags: jazz, Hammond Organ, accordion, Public Access TV, radio, Travel, INTERNATIONAL, media, Property

Jon Hammond on KCSM 91.1 FM with Chris Cortez and HammondCast 18 KYOURADIO and KYCY Jazz Blues and Soft News

hammondcast wrote 7 months ago: HammondCast 18 KYOU Radio and KYCY *LISTEN TO HammondCast 18 AUDIO Here: HammondCast 18 from NYC tel … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Music: Jazz, Blues, soul, funk, accordions, Hammond Organ, Tech, Property

Navy "Brats"

padresteve wrote 9 months ago: I grew up in a Navy family. I was born in a Navy hospital, and my brother was baptized in a Navy Cha … more →

Tags: military, Religion, Loose thoughts and musings, Vietnam, NJROTC, Navy brat, Navy Chaplain, cubi point, Southern Pacific Daylight

travel by train

callmeandrea wrote 1 year ago: Clearly, I realize the 16th Street Mall for what it is, a tourist trap, I mean attraction. And so in … more →

Tags: Here I am, the way it was, Millennium Bridge, Union Station, broadway, civic center park, Carolina, 16th Street Mall, Tourist

Finally

offthebeatentrack wrote 1 year ago: Waking up in San Jose. SAN MATEO, Calif. – It took a mighty long time, but I’ve finally … more →

Tags: Chicago, Amtrak, San Francisco, blackberry, san jose, Illinois, National League, Baseball, Major League Baseball

It’s official

offthebeatentrack wrote 1 year ago: Pretty, but not Emeryville. COLFAX, Calif. – We have reached a milestone on the trip, and as y … more →

Tags: Amtrak, emeryville, California, Union Pacific, Colfax, Sierra Nevada mountains, Roseville, Sacramento, cold stream canyon


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