Taking a series of trains, buses and fun facts about them
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This country is so big, I’ve been in three time zones in four days
Lots of people with protest placards!
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I’ll know that I’ve reached a new phase in life when I start traveling with one of these in addition to my travel kettle
It would be so nice to have my good tea leaves with me and one of these
@skinnylatte I have two different sets like that, one slightly bigger and one very compact and round like a ball. I call them my sanity when I'm travelling.
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@skinnylatte they were revamped when the Olympics came to Atlanta in 1996 back when I lived there - maybe they haven't been updated since then
@genex @skinnylatte there are a bunch of thirty year old plus Tube trains and I bet they look better - but then I expect they also have more maintenance tlc than MARTA can afford.
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This country is so big, I’ve been in three time zones in four days
@skinnylatte Two weeks ago, my family and I drove for ten hours to go camping in a national park and we never left California!
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@skinnylatte One of the few US city transit systems that goes directly to the airport. It's old but when I lived there I took it all the time to the airport and downtown.
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This country is so big, I’ve been in three time zones in four days
@skinnylatte when my sister in law moved to Virginia from Germany she was expecting we'd be visiting her from CA quite often and was pretty offended for a while when we said "well, not that often, you know?".
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Lots of people with protest placards!
9. MARTA bus at the King Memorial MARTA Center in Atlanta, a great way to get to the King Center by transit
Tickets are around $2.50 with free 2 hour transfer
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One of the cool things about taking local buses is you can get a good sense of neighborhoods
I don’t know *anything* about Atlanta neighborhoods but I immediately got the vibe that I like Cabbagetown and East Atlanta in general
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@skinnylatte You had me at Cabbagetown.
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@skinnylatte I find that even while travelling, and even compared to underground transit. Like, taking the surface busses in London and Paris gave us such a better sense of the shape of the city and the vibe of the neighbourhoods than taking the Tube or the Metro did, where you wind up having these highlights right around the stations, but nothing else.
I found it even more so here in Toronto when I would bike around the city.
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@skinnylatte I find that even while travelling, and even compared to underground transit. Like, taking the surface busses in London and Paris gave us such a better sense of the shape of the city and the vibe of the neighbourhoods than taking the Tube or the Metro did, where you wind up having these highlights right around the stations, but nothing else.
I found it even more so here in Toronto when I would bike around the city.
@PastaThief yeah! i LOVE buses. primarily for this reason. but also that when planned well, buses can get you much closer in many places
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@skinnylatte I find that even while travelling, and even compared to underground transit. Like, taking the surface busses in London and Paris gave us such a better sense of the shape of the city and the vibe of the neighbourhoods than taking the Tube or the Metro did, where you wind up having these highlights right around the stations, but nothing else.
I found it even more so here in Toronto when I would bike around the city.
@PastaThief @skinnylatte staying near Canada Wharf a few years ago, we'd take the bus each morning to the tube station. Waiting for the bus brought us to the daily life of London.
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@PastaThief yeah! i LOVE buses. primarily for this reason. but also that when planned well, buses can get you much closer in many places
@skinnylatte Yeah, I think here is probably like many places, where the subway is like coarse tuning, getting you rapidly to the right general neighbourhood, and then surface transit gets you within a block of your target from there. A lot of my transit rides go bus-subway-bus.
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Amtrak emailed to say they’ll be giving us Amtrak vouchers as they’re sorry about the train delays on the Southwest Chief.
If it’s a substantial voucher of some sort I’d like to spend it on a roomette. I’ve never been in one
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@skinnylatte Oh they are delightful!!! Highly recommend. I did one from New Orleans to Chicago once
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This country is so big, I’ve been in three time zones in four days
@skinnylatte does it help with the jetlag?
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@skinnylatte does it help with the jetlag?
@artcollisions last time I flew to the east coast, my sleep cycle was somewhat disrupted. Not jetlag but it was harder to switch to waking up at the usual time
This time as I stopped in the middle and travelled by land until I got to ET, I feel totally fine
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@skinnylatte Oh they are delightful!!! Highly recommend. I did one from New Orleans to Chicago once
@vwampage I can’t wait! The California Zephyr is a bucket list trip (I’ve done only part of it in coach)
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@artcollisions last time I flew to the east coast, my sleep cycle was somewhat disrupted. Not jetlag but it was harder to switch to waking up at the usual time
This time as I stopped in the middle and travelled by land until I got to ET, I feel totally fine
@skinnylatte makes sense!
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Passengers in the sleeper cars get all meals included, coach passengers can opt in for meals.
I’m a fan of their breakfasts, I think it’s a nice way to start the day and it’s pretty good (diner quality omelets)
(I generally like breakfast and dinner on the train. I don’t love the sandwich / melts / burgers for lunch. They have other dishes at breakfast and dinner)
@skinnylatte Amtrak food is surprisingly good. Not fine dining, no, but thoroughly on the correct side of "acceptable". Miles above airline food.
