{"id":904,"date":"2007-07-09T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2007-07-09T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:44:00","slug":"travel-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":""Travel by Train""},"content":{"rendered":"

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If I had leaned far enough out of my window at the Oxford Hotel<\/a> to get the full text of the sign at Denver’s Union Station, I would have fallen three stories, which would have ruined M.’s and my trip to the Mendocino coast.<\/p>\n

And if I had remembered to pack the USB cable to connect camera to PowerBook, I might have published a day-by-day photo journal. And that journal might have bored some readers to death.<\/p>\n

So here is a synopsis, with links instead.<\/p>\n

We took Amtrak<\/a> to Sacramento, then drove to Clear Lake, because I have a fondness for down-at-heel resort towns, like Truth or Consequences, N.M., or Manitou Springs, Colo., the way it was when we lived there. We spent one day just zig-zagging around Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties, being auto tourists.<\/p>\n

We stayed at a 19th-century B&B<\/a>, ate beyond our budget<\/a>, and of course bought wine<\/a>. And more wine<\/a>. (I have a sentimental fondness for Pedroncelli<\/a>, even though it is not one of the fawncy<\/i> post-wine boom vineyards, based on a strange dream-like experience during my college years.) And beer<\/a>, just to be fair.<\/p>\n

And then retraced our steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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