{"id":12879,"date":"2023-07-28T20:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:24:18","slug":"riding-the-zephyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/28\/riding-the-zephyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding The Zephyr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/travel\/america-roll-california-zephyr\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/travel\/america-roll-california-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What It\u2019s Like to Watch America Roll by on the California Zephyr<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Transcontinental, (almost) 3,000 miles from home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BY\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/robertannis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ROBERT ANNIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moon River Colorado \ud83d\udea3\ud83c\udffc\ud83c\udf0a\ud83c\udf1d #rafting #moon #shorts\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uA7lp70AznM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I first learned about the California Zephyr from a song by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/music\/most-millennial-album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ben Gibbard<\/a>&nbsp;and Jay Farrar, who, in turn, were paraphrasing Jack Kerouac\u2019s novel&nbsp;<em>Big Sur<\/em>: \u201cNow I\u2019m transcontinental, 3,000 miles from my home,\u201d Gibbard sings in his, as my buddy Scott Zuppardo describes, \u201cnasally sweetness.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/travel\/5-best-north-american-train-trips-take-winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Zephyr<\/a>, watching America roll by.\u201d It sounded blissful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the California Zephyr route is considered by many to be America\u2019s most beautiful train ride. Beginning in Chicago, and over the course of 52 hours, it chugs through the middle of the country, traversing some of its most beautiful scenery before reaching its final stop in Emeryville, California. From there, passengers can take a bus to San Francisco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always been curious about train travel, but it\u2019s the kind of cross country-trip I would typically reserve for my camper van. A direct flight from my hometown of Indianapolis to the West Coast only takes about six hours, and while I can grit my teeth and get through it if I\u00a0<em>have<\/em>\u00a0to, I don\u2019t like to be confined in a space for any length of time. How would I manage nearly two-and-a-half days on a train?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/travel\/america-roll-california-zephyr\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/travel\/america-roll-california-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook What It\u2019s Like to Watch America Roll by on the California Zephyr Transcontinental, (almost) 3,000 miles from home BY\u00a0ROBERT ANNIS I first learned about the California Zephyr from a song by&nbsp;Ben Gibbard&nbsp;and Jay Farrar, who, in turn, were paraphrasing Jack Kerouac\u2019s novel&nbsp;Big Sur: \u201cNow I\u2019m transcontinental, 3,000 miles from my home,\u201d Gibbard sings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}