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No, just checked and it’s not been cancelled. Yet! Whilst we like Chicago it’s deffo time to get moving. Plus this time tomorrow the forecast is -9c, -16c with windchill!
26th Jan 2023 2:17 pm
nigethecat
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Not stopping in Vegas or Reno to "roll the dice" ?I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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26th Jan 2023 2:23 pm
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If we hit Vegas then we’re on the wrong train. ISTR we stop at Reno but deffo not getting off the train! 👍
26th Jan 2023 2:30 pm
nigethecat
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I guess AmTrak is enough of a gamble I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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26th Jan 2023 3:39 pm
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Tell me about it!!
Gratuitous pic from breakie table, it doesn’t show that it’s snowing but it is. it’s going to be strange not layering up in SF, and points west. Might even need to buy some sun cream!
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That me hex’ed it, it’s now going to be blizzards in S California!
26th Jan 2023 3:52 pm
nigethecat
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You know "it never rains in Southern California" hmmm we know a song about that I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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26th Jan 2023 4:01 pm
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More worried if dude checking us in at first lodgings there is humming “Hotel California”! ISTR there is something in the lyrics re no wine!!
26th Jan 2023 5:26 pm
kajtzu
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Just don’t flip a coin… heads Carolina, tails California
Originally by Jo Dee Messina of course, but there is a remake by Cole Swindell “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” which is really good.
26th Jan 2023 8:28 pm
nigethecat
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“Another nineties country fan” I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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26th Jan 2023 8:56 pm
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Well got the train, and they say it’s heading to Californ-i-ia. Bye bye Chicago, we’ll be back. Just hope not today.
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26th Jan 2023 9:17 pm
kajtzu
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You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy
Try this one, Nige, it’s about cars
26th Jan 2023 9:18 pm
kajtzu
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If you’re going to the Bay Area, do go to the following places and don’t just stay on the peninsula:
- Moffett field historical society museum. Has Air Force and Navy kit. You’ll need your passports to enter through the security checkpoint
- the intel museum in Santa Clara
- computer history museum in Mountain View
- Stanford campus which is really nice although it’s nicer in the summer than in winter
26th Jan 2023 9:28 pm
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And greetings from Denver.
Interesting night’s sleep, top bunk with no window and not a lot of vertical room for my slight frame!! Also the train driver honks his horn a good number of times for every road crossing, all through the night, there are thousands of crossings. Plus we are only 2 coaches behind the loco, I kept waking up thinking of the Notra Dame dude, just saying “the horns, the horns”.
Up early though, one hour time zone shift, had breakie and now parked in the observation car ready to go through the Rockies. There should be lots of snow on the hills, hopefully good pics.
Meanwhile, few pics from the train yesterday. Was typically -6c to -8c out there and was pretty fresh when I popped out for the first pic.
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Needed 2 locos to pull us, they’d heard the diet wasn’t going too well!
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And in contrast to Snakes on a Plane, Steaks on a Train. Steak was good, rest was a bit mingie. Breakie was really good but no pic.
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27th Jan 2023 3:10 pm
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@kajtzu, thanks for those suggestions, will have a mooch through today. Unfortunately Moffat Field is a no-go as it would take most of the day to get there and back. Unfortunately no car on this part of the trip.
PS Just realised we missed Nabraska, all of Nabraska. Sorry Nabraskatarians. Also passed within spitting distance of Offutt AFB, but it was just before 11pm and pitch black out there.
27th Jan 2023 3:24 pm
Rescue01
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Del on a frozen train. Could be the storyline of a movie then series.
Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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Whilst we like Chicago it’s deffo time to get moving. Plus this time tomorrow the forecast is -9c, -16c with windchill! 
Just hope not today. 
