This was the Yosemite trip:
- Lake Shore Limited, with a sleeper
- Very late to CHI - missed connection, slept in Chicago
- Aboard the Southwest Chief
- Southwest Chief
- Southwest Chief to LA - late again, off at Riverside
- Sun Valley to Morro Bay
- Morro Bay to Monterey via Paso Robles & Salinas
- Monterey (Aquarium) and Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz
- San Francisco to Mendocino via Cazadero inland route
- Mendocino
- Fort Bragg to Napa
- Napa to San Jose to Merced
- Yosemite NP to Fish Camp
- Fish Camp to LA via Sequoia and the big cats refuge
- LA, Venice Beach
- BUR to BOS on an unsatisfactory JetBlue red-eye