bitter magnet

yesterday i took the train to Eugene, Oregon with my parents. we left our house around 6pm, and ended up getting to our hotel at 6pm today (so that's 24 hours of travel, covering only a couple hundred miles). Yes, the trip was a bee-yatch. First off, we had to take a taxi from our house to the Amtrak bus stop in Santa Rosa, which we boarded a charter bus to Martinez (the closest train station). The bus ride was only a couple hours long, so we ended up getting to Martinez around 9:30pm. Our train was supposed to arrive at 11:50pm, but it ended being more than fashionably late (try 1:30am). So yeah, that's four hours waiting at teeny train station. Eek.