WaltarrrrrAparrently I have never taken #amtrak from SF to LA on a Sunday or I would have remembered #BART doesn’t start running until 8AM to Oakland, and the ferry doesn’t start until 9:20AM. The #coaststarlight #11 leaves at 9:09 from #OKJ. $30 Lyft across the Emperor Norton bridge it is!
If the Emperor Norton Bay Skyway connecting the already built east span with the proposed west span existed, I would have gladly biked from SF to Oakland. But noooo, that won’t be built until 2033 at the earliest. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bay-skyway-new-cycling-path-across-entire-bay-19858629.php
On the bright side, the lady who is usually here to wrangle Amtrak riders at OKJ seems to have Sunday off. She’s like a high-strung sheep dog lining people up a half hour before the train arrives, and woe to those who dare to sit at the benches and wait. She will badger you into submission.
C.L. Dellums looks down the tracks at Oakland Jack London Square Station. Statue commemorating the union and civil rights leader who organized Pullman porters in the 1930’s and lead them to the 1960’s. https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/dellums-c-l-1900-1989/
The oil wells of Central California spotted, time to play the, ‘There Will be Blood’ soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood. #TravelByTrain
