{"id":1895,"date":"2016-08-21T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2016-10-18T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:22:28","slug":"salt-lake-city-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/21\/salt-lake-city-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake City to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being an early riser, I rose early.\u00a0\u00a0 Being up really early means you don’t wait for showers, which makes me happy.<\/p>\n

We had breakfast with this utterly delightful man from San Francisco who was coming home from his own coast to coast adventure.\u00a0 He had Views on education, history, and the general state of Humanity.\u00a0 Well educated, well-traveled and erudite, it was a pleasure to have breakfast with him.<\/p>\n

Lunch was with two really different people. One was a retired woman who didn’t fly, but lived in Oakland and had family in Chicago. \u00a0She was a California Zephyr veteran and a former accountant. \u00a0 The other woman?<\/p>\n

She was beautifully turned out for a cocktail party. \u00a0She had about six disparate businesses and claimed she liked to take the route from Reno to SF because she could work on the train on her various businesses. \u00a0This last she mentioned after a comment that I usually take the Northeast Regional, which has Wi-Fi, so it was really strange for me not to get some work done on the train. \u00a0 Peter and I had to put our hands over our mouths leaving the dining car all the way back to our roomette to keep ourselves from laughing loud enough to be \u00a0heard all over the train.<\/p>\n

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Across the Bay Bridge from Emeryville (c) 2016 Peter Vinton, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By this time, I have to admit that we were getting a bit weary of the train and ready for our next adventure. The scenery was still lovely, of course, but you can only walk around on a train so much, and we wanted to be able to get up and\u00a0move<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We got to Emeryville on time, and were able to board our bus to Pier 39 at Fisherman’s Wharf with no trouble. \u00a0But since we decided not to rent a car, how to get to our hotel?<\/p>\n

We walked.<\/p>\n

It was a little over a mile, and Google Maps was fine with walking directions, so it was no big deal. \u00a0After days of mostly sitting, a walk was pretty welcome, our carry-ons were backpacks, and our big suitcase had wheels. The slope up Van Ness wasn’t as bad as coming up the hill to our house, so I was kind of eyerolling the whole “San Francisco Hills” thing, even though we were happy to get to the hotel.<\/p>\n

When we got to the hotel, we really kind of collapsed, though. \u00a0It was nice to be off a train and able to take a long soak in a bathtub. \u00a0We ordered dinner in, and I took care of some work a client had sent me. \u00a0I’m self-employed, and my ability to work is mostly controlled by Internet access. \u00a0The California Zephyr doesn’t have wireless, darn it. \u00a0Being used to the Northeast Regional and the Vermonter, I gotta admit\u00a0not<\/em> working on the train was one of the stranger experiences of the trip for me!<\/p>\n

We turned in early, our bodies still kind of on East Coast time, but ready for more adventure the next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being an early riser, I rose early.\u00a0\u00a0 Being up really early means you don’t wait for showers, which makes me happy. We had breakfast with this utterly delightful man from San Francisco who was coming home from his own coast to coast adventure.\u00a0 He had Views on education, history, and the general state of Humanity.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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