The Amtrak

Here's Katie on the Amtrak train coming home from Old Sacramento. Ah, the romance of train travel through the sunset.

I was initially a little worried that the Amtrak would be full given that it was Thanksgiving weekend. But both trains (coming and going) had plenty of room for us. When we got on at Hawyard at around 8:30 am, the train was pretty deserted -- but by the time we got to Sacramento, it was pretty full.

The train route from the Bay Area to Sacramento is actually pretty scenic: you see a lot of the actual bay and there are plenty of recognizable landmarks along the way (e.g., the Golden Gate Bridge, the Carquinez Bridge, Berkeley, the UC Davis campus, and others).