The Tunnels on The Pass

On August 8, I wrote that we woke at six in the morning at the campgrounds in Donner State Park. My alarm went off and I stayed up because we had a tight schedule for catching our train home that day. I consolidated the bags and noticed that my boys do OK stuffing sleeping bags, pads and tarps.

We ate the rest of the trail mix and I drank a coffee. By 845, we were packing the rest into our bags. I knew the train was running late but took no chances. We caught a ride from Tart Connect at the park entrance. The boys had been having a hard time carrying their heavy backpacks and I had been noting throughout the trip that I needed to get a bigger bag for myself.

Our ride arrived quickly enough and we made the station with 15 minutes to spare. I felt like that was really close. The train pulled up, we got our bags and boarded. There wasn’t much trouble while we dropped our bags and I brought the boys to the cafe car. A short moment later I went to the rear of the train to get a picture of the tunnels on the pass.

After that we found a nice space at a table in the observation car. I posted to Twitter and got the boys beverages. I noted that I would be that we would be in Colfax soon.

This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.