At one quick stop our porter left the train to get himself a Starbucks coffee. It wasn't a stop we could get off at.
Some of the decoration in the club car. A porter told us that Amtrak was going to get rid of this sort of detail - we wondered why. Such details make train travel neat.
The roomette we had for sleeping was cozy but a bit tight. One could sleep on the lower level, with a window, and another on top, without.
Ros did some work in a club car.
In Portland, Ros and I went up to the front of the train to take a picture of the diesel electric locomotive.
And yet another tower we passed later in the afternoon, as you can see by the clock. I'm not sure where this was.
Union Station in Portland. Another tower. And a nicely preserved station.
Here's the station tower in Seattle. Many stations along the line have square towers, modelled aftr the tower in Venice, I think. Very phallic.
On Aug. 11 Rosalind and I set out for Berkeley to house sit and see my sister Marijo for a week. We decided to go by train. We took a bus (at 5:30 am!) from Vancouver to Seattle and boarded Amtrak's Coast Starlight.
This dumping has been going on for months. Lots of material has been excavated to make a tunnel under False Creek and downtown Vancouver.
This is a view from the Cambie Bridge inVancouver. Dump trucks are unloading earth excavated from our new subway tunnel into a barge that is towed out into Georgia Strait to be dropped into the ocean.
I love this part of the park's trail, with overarching trees.
We went on a hike with the Lindsay's, Judy and Hugh, and David, at Campell River Park. We followed the horse trail, which, if you watch your step, is very pleasant. (David is just behnd Judy.)
Saturday, August 04, 2007
For his final cake, Jack was assisted by Meredith, Mary Macallum's daughter. Ros got the cake to share with the parishioners at Christ Church Cathedral during coffee hour. One birthday, three cakes!
Emily is Margery and Jack's first great-grandchild.
Emily is Chris Kellett's daughter, and very sweet. She's not quite a year now (I think).
Another visitor in late July was Emily, with her mother Geneve, here at 1251.
She also got a poster, some stickers, and bookmarks. Here she is in front of the store with her treasures, which she began reading right away.
At midnight on July 21 Ros went to the Book Warehouse bookstore to pick up the two copies of the Harry Potter book 7 that she'd ordered. There was a long line that snaked through the store, and at exactly midnight they began handing out the book.
What Naomi did most of the time was work on her assignments. But she will be near the end of her summer term at the University of Victoria soon and be off till Labour Day.
Ros didn't get a picture of me hitting the ball because most of the time I was far from it!
Nick really loves the game. Naomi says he's a bit addicted to it, which I think is true.
On Saturday we went to see Nick play bicycle polo on a tennis court at a park near Commercial drive. He's in the left foreground. You have to stay on your bicycle and put the ball between two pylons at the end of the court. Ros and I both tried it - it takes a lot of skill.
And the second birthday cake for Grandpa came in
Andrea will have a baby in September, Jane in January
