Sometimes when people who don’t like trains say ‘what? 18h? You can drive it in 8’, I say yes but that’s 10h of not riding a train; which sucks.
That confuses them.
@skinnylatte Our eldest sprog attends UC Davis, while we live on the SF peninsula.
We love love LOVE the Capital Corridor Amtrak. Just sit back and let someone else bring us to and fro, and never an urgent stop to find a bathroom along the way.
We only drive at the start and end of the school year, when the amount of cargo is a bit much to schlep onto the train.