From Union Station to Penn Station

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there.

-Leslie Feinberg

This is a photograph of Union Station in Los Angeles. The beginning of a cross-country train trip. I flew out to LA from Newark and spent a couple of days in Venice then took the city bus to the station.

From Union Station, I took the Coast Starlight to Oakland Jack London Square Station and walked to my hotel.

 

Because of floods in Iowa (to get the trains back on schedule the train I booked was canceled), I ended up with two nights in Oakland and took the BART to my spot for the second night and from there the city bus to Emeryville Station

where I caught the California Zephyr to Denver Union Station.

I was picked up and dropped off at Denver Union Station in a champagne Kia SUV and continued on the California Zephyr to Chicago Union Station.

I took the Metra to and from Chicago Union Station.

 

 

From Chicago Union Station I picked up the Cardinal and took it to the flag stop Thurmond. I traveled to and from Thurmond by taxi...saw three fawns frolicking in a front yard during the first cab ride, which the driver on the second cab ride told me how the first driver had told him about them, I heard you saw three fawns on the cab ride there. Yes, it felt very special.

From Thurmond I continued on the Cardinal to Newark Pennsylvania Station and walked the rest of the way home.