Month: July 2023

1-3 July The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is directly on the Walk of Fame, opposite the Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. What a glorious hotel, built in 1927, by Hollywood luminaries, it shows off its old Spanish Colonial Revival-style architecture.  It

29 June -1 July Gerry drove us to Emeryville Station via an excellent French bakery in Berkeley. Time for a croissant and coffee before boarding the northbound train. There had been a derailment the previous day, and our booked train

June 26-29 After a bumpy night in narrow bunk beds, the Amtrak train approached San Francisco, having caught up with an hour’s delay. After an over-sized breakfast in the dining car, some packing of overnight toiletries, we emerged onto the

25-26 June Sunday morning saw us stop off, en route to Seattle King Street Station, at the same coffee shop we had visited on the way to the hotel, where we grabbed a coffee and large croissant for breakfast. We