I'm back in San Diego after living through Wednesday twice. That's what I get for crossing the dateline. Ten hours on an airplane from Tokyo. I was going to take a train from Los Angeles to San Diego. I had such good experiences with trains in Japan. But when I got to the airport I got a text from Amtrak informing me they weren't going to check luggage so I cancelled the trip and got my 54 dollars refunded. I ended up taking a shuttle from LAX to Old Town San Diego for 60 dollars.
The distance between Osaka and Tokyo is 497km and takes about three hours to cross by bullet train. The distance between Los Angeles and San Diego is 194km and takes about three hours when Amtrak has its shit together. I heard Gavin Newsom wanted to get bullet trains for California but of course it got sucked down the usual bureaucratic whirlpools. So it goes.
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