Travel Update

Latest Travel Update:

I arrive in San Francisco about 12 pm on the 31st March, and I should clear customs etc. by 2 pm. I’ll catch an Antioch line (yellow) BART train to Powell Street (US$9.65 one way and running every 20 mins on Sunday) and check in at the Hotel Zelos on the corner of 4th and Market, about 60 metres from the station in the area known as SOMA or South of Market.

Next morning, about 6 am I’ll check out and catch the BART to 19th St, Oakland and then the local bus to Shellmound at Public Market, next to the Amtrak station. US$4 for BART and $4 for the bus.

As a non driving non license holder I will be travelling solely by Public Transport across 6000 miles of the US, and I will be making observations on how easy or not it is to do so.

AMTRAK
I’ve travelled Amtrak before. This trip, SF to Boston, is because I like travelling Amtrak. The trains have observation cars, showers, bar service and very small convenience stores on the lower level of the dining car. They stop regularly and local residents use them for instate travel. You meet a remarkable cross section of people from all walks, the obvious anomaly being I have never met an Australian any where but in LA and NYC.
The cost: SF to Boston Single roomette AUD$1200, meals inc., tips extra.