The Sunshine Boulevard Train

On May 23, 2025, I wrote that around 11 in the morning, I got my 8 year old boys from school and we took the 1 bus to Market Street where we had stored our bikes. We then jumped on a Richmond BART Train.

I got Amtrak tickets there but forgot to get the return trip which isn’t always a problem but it can complicate the return since we are often in a rush. The air was warm. The boys did fine with getting to the platform and the boarding worked too. Unfortunately, the boys hadn’t understood that we just needed a seat – not necessarily seats together.

We settled in until Davis and got off fine. Not having my cargo bike made the experience a little better. We transferred to Sacramento Transit fine. I thought it was the Folsom train but it turned out to be the Sunshine Boulevard train. I resigned to having to transfer at the end of the line but when we got there our train had a broken door and was taken out of service onto a spare track for the repair instead of going back to sac.

This ended up, causing the flow of trains to be disrupted and there were several turn backs. Eventually after two missed trains, a new train was brought in from the other direction. This indicated it to me that it was actually a better idea to catch the first train out of Sacraento Valley Station because had we opted for the the Folsom train, we would’ve been off boarded because of the turn backs. So thankfully we ended up being only 40 minutes later than anticipated instead of as many as two hours later.

At Folsom, we checked into our hotel. I took a short nap. The boys and I discovered that the pool was closed, which was sad. I took the boys to a cute little pub in Old Town Folsom for sliders. They were pork and beef, which I discovered is really good. Also, I think they over salted it, but I also liked that.

The toy store across the street was great. The boys and I walked down to rainbow Bridge and then we went to the local ice cream shop. We visited the round house and stopped in at the hotel for a beverage. The boys played iPad while I napped. I finally got them to sleep and started writing in my notebook late.

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.