The best way to appreciate L.A. is not to drive. Every other time we have tried Lost Angeles, we have had a vehicle disaster. The first time was in the Clark, the RV that Cheryl and I bought, over the internet, right after we got married. We picked it up in Albuquerque and drove it […]
Tucson is not spelled Tuscon. I know that because of the little dotted red line underneath the latter, which has appeared time after time in my writing of the word. The spelling is derived from a native pronunciation of the area, with had an “X” sound in the middle: Toox-on. At least according to my […]
 Tucson: one hour late. Tucson: a beautiful station. Tucson: wireless internet. We arrived at 10:30 P.M., which was one hour later than expected. You know, the witching hour, the hour that determined whether or not the kids would be able to stay awake. We pulled into Tucson just as we were all happily nodding […]
Tucson to L.A. takes exactly one night. We get on at 9:30 PM and arrive the next morning at 8:30 AM. The kids slept great, I slept poorly, I don’t know if Zac slept at all, and I woke up thinking “hey! We are in L.A.!” Well, there were some orange groves, and then there […]
Deming New Mexico When we got off the train in Deming, we had no real concept of where we were going. We knew that Daniel and Juniper, our hosts and creators of Living Art Studio, didn’t live in Deming. Our neighbor Barbara always referred to where they lived in relation to Silver City. And the […]
Another sleepless night on the train. Try sleeping on Amtrak, and then try sleeping on Amtrak while it is sitting still in San Antonio for 7 hours. The train left Austin only an hour late, not to shabby for Amtrak, and got into San Antonio around 10 PM. We all had to get out and […]
On the train from Austin to Deming… Austin was the classic disaster, gig-wise. If I had $5 for every time someone said to us “Have you ever played Austin? Oh you ought to, its the ‘Live Music Capital of America’”, by which surely they mean the world because who would have more live music than […]
Austin, Texas As we approached Austin, you could see the looming gray skies and I realized how little I had considered the concept that it could rain. Amtrak was running about 35 minutes late at this point, and it was those exact 35 minutes we would have needed to avoid getting completely soaked upon arrival. […]
Austin, Texas by Eureka First we drove a train to Austin from Dallas. Then we visited our friends Moody and Mychal too. and Edy, and Dana and Brad and Chloe and Alex and Tori, and Paul and Dorothy. It was a blast! We even saw Moody’s crazy house, I loved it because it was so […]
I’m so glad I’m on the train right now. I’m so glad that we woke up in the middle of the night too so we can go on the train really really early in the morning. We saw the Dart a couple of times, which is the train you can ride around Dallas. I am […]