Rear Window, Coast Starlight
3 Aug
At this very moment, I’m riding Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. There isn’t much to do on a 30-hour train ride (except diligently catch up on work, of course), so armed with my trusty Superclamp, I mounted a 5D to the rear window of the last car on the train.
This is one of the more scenic passenger rail routes you can take in the United States, and the only one that literally both winds it’s way along the beaches of Southern California and winds it’s way up through the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington. (Yes, it does do quite a lot of winding. I can drive the same distance in half the time, but honestly, this is a much more comfortable and far more productive way to travel).
You know what they say. The last car has the second-best view on the whole train. (The first, of course, being from the locomotive)
