{"id":1224,"date":"2011-06-30T23:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T04:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2011-07-07T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T01:22:14","slug":"day-1-2-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Day 1, 2 &amp; 3 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, day one and two have been a mix of emotions. It is great, we are on vacation together and having fun. It stinks that our well made plans for the outbound train trip got flushed down the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, our train from Lamy to Los Angeles was six hours late which made it 3 hours too late for our connecting train in LA. They took us off our train in San Bernardino and out us on a three hour bus to Bakersfield, CA. We then got on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amtrak.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amtrak<\/a> California San Joaquin train for about six hours (coach only) to Martinez, CA. Then we waited two hours for our original connecting train to arrive, the Coast Starlight. We boarded it at 11:00.<\/p>\n<p>Some pics from the train trip\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In the dining car\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020698\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020698_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020699.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020699\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020699_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In our sleeper rooms\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020700\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020700_thumb.jpg\" width=\"578\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020702.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020702\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020702_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outside the parlour car\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020733\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020733_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Klamath Falls, OR stop\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020729\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020729_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>We went straight to bed, but got up early and enjoyed the time we did have on that train.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Portland, OR around 4:00. We got a rental car and headed straight to the Zoo where we spent a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020737.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020737\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020737_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020744.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020744\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020744_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020749.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020749\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020749_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Black bear up a tree!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020752\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020752_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020754.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020754\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020754_thumb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1020755\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1020755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020755_thumb.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"537\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We then went and checked into our hotel (free nights stay thanks to rewards points!) and then ran and ate some dinner. Decided to go ahead and top off the rental car. Interesting factoid, it is illegal for you to put gas in your own car in the state of Oregon. Guy at the station stopped me right before I was about to to do it. I guess I could have been hauled off by the cops for it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, a little more time in Portland then off to Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, day one and two have been a mix of emotions. It is great, we are on vacation together and having fun. It stinks that our well made plans for the outbound train trip got flushed down the toilet. In summary, our train from Lamy to Los Angeles was six hours late which made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-seattle-portland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}