San Francisco is amazing!  The public transportation system is awesome and easy to navigate.  Toured Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, also walked down by the Warf and saw a sea lion!  Lots of great food, trolly was fun too.  Met a few ladies from Denmark on the trolly.  If you don't want to wait in a huge line for the trolly, walk up the street a few blocks and catch it there.  Nice retired Vet told us that trick ;-)  Get your Alcatraz tickets up to 3 months early (won't let you get them further out than that).  Ended the night with my mom, my six fabulous cousins, and myself at the Cobb's Comedy Club (#BertKreischer #TaylorTomlinson) and Karoke cab driving us home.  What a great adventure!

Hello Portland! Beautiful mountains, lakes, and rivers we saw on our way here! The train sleeper car we were in was comfortable and really not much for noise (pleasantly surprised). Our attendant, Faith, was WONDERFUL! She changed our seats to sleeper beds both nights (to high tech for me) There was a second bed that dropped down (bunk bed) Thank God I do yoga is all I have to say on getting in. Once up there it was pretty comfortsble

The first night on a passenger train...gotta say it's been an experience! We boarded at 3:51 am only 20 minutes late...not bad. First hurdle 3:30 am ...do I get on the east or west bound train! My brain didn't know ...it froze or more like said "You do realize it's almost 4 am...nope. Not telling you." Luckily the nice lady that ran basically the whole station told us "you wantthe