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West Coast Train Trip 2008
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{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
Double limed for extra sad.
Yea, I'm thinking about just getting a regular seat for the trip to Seattle, but grabbing a room on the way back.
I figure I'll probably be hung over and tired as hell on the return trip, so it'd be nice to have a place to sleep comfortably.
Hmm... like unlimited drinks? Of an alcoholic kind? ... could be fiscally worth it for one of those rooms in the long run.
But no, they don't give you all the free alcohol you can drink :P
Get the PAX 2008 Countdown widget and while away your sad, pathetic life watching it tick down the hours to PAX '08!
http://homepage.mac.com/ctishman
I'm going to be bring a whole sutecase full this year.
Just make sure that if you get asked if you have a sleeper, say yes. I was asked once, and said I left my ticket in the room. And was never asked again.
I just called Amtrak about the Coast Starlight 14 and they said it stops to let passengers off at stations north of Chemult, but not on. I'm trying to reach the Portland station to see if there's any way to make an exception, with just carry-on luggage maybe, but I'm having trouble. I'll keep looking into it and see what can be done. The Coast Starlight 11, South from Seattle on Monday, will stop to drop passengers at several points including Portland, so we can at least join in on the way home.
If (likely) we aren't able to make the Coast Starlight 14 work for us, Cascades trains 500 and 506 are running on Thursday the 28th. The rates are as follows for all points North of Chemult, for both trains:
Albany, OR: $38 (506 requires train transfer, 504 to Portland, no additional charge)
Salem, OR: $34 (506 requires train transfer, 504 to Portland, no additional charge)
Portland, OR: $28
Vancouver, WA: $26
Kelso-Longview, WA: $23
Centralia, WA: $18
Olympia-Lacey, WA $14
Tacoma, WA: $11
There are two options: the Cascades 500, which starts pretty early (especially for those from Eugene, Albany, and Salem) but would require no transfers -- or the Cascades 506, which leaves about three hours later, gets into Seattle at about 4PM, but requires those from south of Portland to take the transfer Cascades 504 into Portland.
Let's see how many Northern Oregon and SW Washington people are interested! PM me with your total number of passengers and your vote for which train to take.
Tentative participant list:
King Nada ?
Foxy_Roxy ?
Viscountalpha ?
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Was I the only one to see the homeless guy with a cat, playing with a PSP?
I didn't see a PAX pass on him, so I figure he killed some one and took it. He was hangin' out at Freeway Park.
BUT she wants to go to PAX next year if this one's good (she's excited about this one now!), and if when we go next year we'll just go for PAX so we'll take the train both up and back.
Uh oh, and to think I was maybe going to get one for the trip. Don't want to be confused for a homeless guy though.
(cue the picture of the sea of DS's at PAX)
edit: found'd
okay, it doesn't really look like a sea in this picture, but trust me, about 85-95% of all PAX attendees have a Nintendo DS
to wich i replied
and then
later i got a pm from Maccy saying that though he appreciates our offers . .he won't be able to make it
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
Edit- I keep forgeting, but I jump on at San Jose.
My wife and I will be on at San Jose as well. EMY is probably closer to us, but San Jose is more accesible by public transit. By the by, why does it take 24 hours by train from San Jose, but were I to drive it would take something like 13? I thought the train would be faster.
The train makes a lot of stops, and I don't think it goes quite the 80 miles an hour you can go in a car. I'm probably wrong about that, but the train has like eighteen bajillion tons to tug behind it, whereas your car weighs maybe 1 or 2.
Don't forget get all the 20min smoke brakes every two hours.
The other option is to go to San Diego and hop on the train there. I think it stops there, anyway.
edit: oh and Charles . . not that it's a big deal or anything but could you put a +1 friend next to my name, for my brother. i don't see him registering an account anytime soon to announce his plans to ride the train.
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
The train's engine is quite a bit bigger than mine
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
Add a +1 for my brother too..
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Definatly gonna be prepared this year, one roomette car, two more warm covering stuffage, three DS FTW! (some of you know my frustration watching you all play on the way up and remising over mine that took a nice long sink to the bottom of a lake, enough of a pain to force me to buy a new ds in seattle, LOL), four my 360 and my pc will be coming with me so we can have access to that the whole way and we can have movie night again (yes i will have a spare DVI cable to avoid that "escapade" again), and five munchkin and a couple expansions, nuff said.