Sacramento to La La Land! I woke up in California and had breakfast in my roomette, because it’s so cosy and I didn’t want to miss a thing as we rolled through the Napa Valley and across the Bay Area by San Francisco and Oakland.
Then hours and hours of farmland – salad, cabbages, as far as the eye can see – before the moment I’d been waiting for: the train hitting the coast about halfway down California, past Guadalupe and on towards Santa Barbara. Breathtaking. I was almost hanging out of the window.
And a lovely surprise: Daniel, our steward, gave me a whole bottle of rosé to take on my travels after I thanked him. I’m so touched. Hurray for rosé! Next stop, LA.