Reno to Denver on the California Zephyr, Day 1

It's a good thing that we got the house shut down and secured and got moving early on Thursday, because due to an accident on I-80, we were slowed down on the way to the Amtrak station. Amtrak was running on time (actually a few minutes early). Instead of doing one small errand, we went straight to the Amtrak station, where we checked my large piece of luggage and parked the car in the Whitney Peak garage. Just a few minutes after we got down to platform level, our train arrived. We settled into Bedroom B fairly quickly. Our car attendant remembered us from a previous trip. We explained that Lisa likes to make up the room herself, and that we would take all of our meals in our room. We tipped him in advance.

I have taken more than 150 photos and videos and Lisa probably has at least that many, but they're going to take a long time to get them all into Flickr, so I won't illustrate things for now. It's a pity, because roughly half an hour after we left Reno, we passed the house in Fernley and finally got the shot of the house from on board the train that we wanted.

We ordered dinner in our compartment (steak for me, salmon for Lisa) and proceeded to relax. The train is good for that, and a bedroom compartment on the train is better. Later in the evening, Lisa made down the beds, and somewhere between Winnemucca and Elko, we settled in to sleep. I woke up briefly as we passed through Wells, and again at Wendover, before being rocked again to sleep. It was an interesting contrast with our trip a month ago for Westercon.

Our first day on the road has smoked out a few things we have forgotten. None of them are critical.