I've forgotten where I last posted.
Okay, since then, I have been in London, Rotterdam, Seattle, and now Portland, and I am leaving tomorrow on a train for a couple of days at a friend's house in Sacramento, before hopping on the cruise in San Francisco and heading for Hawaii.
Ooh, Sacramento weather might even be halfway to warm!
Anyway, met up with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
beatrice_otter today and we had a grand time wandering about Portland!
The place I'm staying in is very nice, but a bit on the chilly side. It's a tiny house, and while there is an HVAC heater, I should really just like another doona or blanket on my bed. The owner - one of those people who owns multiple properties - said she'd try to get her cleaner to deliver and extra cover. Alas, I doubt the cleaner will manage to deliver one this evening - we're out of daylight and I can't see them coming by in the dark.
So my options are wear extra layers to bed, or pile my coat and other things on top of me and hope they don't slide off in the middle of the night.
Tomorrow will be the overnighter on the Amtrak 'Coast Starlight'. I think I'm on the mountains side rather than the ocean side, which isn't where I want to be, but ohwell.
I was going to go out to a cafe tonight and do some writing, but I'm really tired. The bed here is too soft, and it develops really deep dips which isn't great for my posture, and so today I've been getting twinges along my back and hips. (The bed in Rotterdam was excellently firm, perfect for me to just straight up conk out on. The bed in Seattle was really soft but it worked.)
Early bed, I think. Maybe some writing.
Okay, since then, I have been in London, Rotterdam, Seattle, and now Portland, and I am leaving tomorrow on a train for a couple of days at a friend's house in Sacramento, before hopping on the cruise in San Francisco and heading for Hawaii.
Ooh, Sacramento weather might even be halfway to warm!
Anyway, met up with
beatrice_otter today and we had a grand time wandering about Portland!The place I'm staying in is very nice, but a bit on the chilly side. It's a tiny house, and while there is an HVAC heater, I should really just like another doona or blanket on my bed. The owner - one of those people who owns multiple properties - said she'd try to get her cleaner to deliver and extra cover. Alas, I doubt the cleaner will manage to deliver one this evening - we're out of daylight and I can't see them coming by in the dark.
So my options are wear extra layers to bed, or pile my coat and other things on top of me and hope they don't slide off in the middle of the night.
Tomorrow will be the overnighter on the Amtrak 'Coast Starlight'. I think I'm on the mountains side rather than the ocean side, which isn't where I want to be, but ohwell.
I was going to go out to a cafe tonight and do some writing, but I'm really tired. The bed here is too soft, and it develops really deep dips which isn't great for my posture, and so today I've been getting twinges along my back and hips. (The bed in Rotterdam was excellently firm, perfect for me to just straight up conk out on. The bed in Seattle was really soft but it worked.)
Early bed, I think. Maybe some writing.
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If you're going now (Dec/Jan), be prepared with lots more layers than you thought you'd need, just for the cruise part. Hawaii was warm and lovely... but we wore hoodies to dinner every night and bought extra sweatshirts when we were in Hawaii... The good news is the ship seemed to have lots of extra blankets to sleep under.
It was otherwise fun... but that cold can be a nasty surprise.
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Not close to the ocean for your train ride, but the mountains will be pretty.
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Even at the height of rail in the US, there was no train up and down the coast. There were trains to the coast, and there were short sections of rail between some towns (a couple of which are now tourist attractions), but nothing running the length of it. Much of the Oregon and Washington coast is a narrow strip (sometimes VERY narrow) between the mountains and the water. With lots of cliffs. And twists and turns. Just getting a regular road that ran the length of it (HWY 101) was difficult, and they still have regular problems that there are some places where the road washes out and it's really really difficult to put back, but there's noplace else they can PUT the road. And the population density in that narrow strip is often pretty high (because everyone's crowded into a small area) but there still aren't that many people TOTAL. Basically: putting a rail line up and down the coast would be WAY more difficult and expensive than running one down the Willamette Valley, AND would be of use to fewer people, so they've never done it (and probably never will).
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