Home Sweet Home!

I had a great trip to San Francisco, but it is good to be home. Yesterday was a bit of a wild day. The train was running four hours late, so those of us who were to make the connection to the train headed south were taken off the train headed to Chicago at Galesburg, Illinois, then bussed to Champaign, Illinois, so we could catch The City of New Orleans en route. It was late getting into Champaign, so we didn’t board until 11:15 p.m. — 15 minutes after the cafe car closed on the train. So none of us got a meal last night. My dinner was a bag of Cheez-Its. You can imagine how hungry I was driving home this morning after I was dropped off at my end station at 5:10 a.m. My car and the McDonald’s sign up the interstate never looked so good.

I promised photos when I got back, so I’ll be posting some over the next few days. Here goes…

This is me beside the California Zephyr, which I took from Chicago to San Francisco and back to Galesburg.

On the way west, we started seeing flood water from the recent Mississippi River flooding several miles before we reached the river. Farmhouses were still surrounded, roads covered, and things such as furniture and outdoor playsets (the wooden ones with slides, swings, etc.) were floating in the water.

The guided tour I mentioned in San Francisco included a very windy ferry ride from San Fran’s Ferry Building to Saulsalito. My agent’s air is a testament to the windy ride. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge over my right shoulder, and Saulsalito over her left shoulder.

We also passed by Alcatraz.

Jennifer Yates, a devoted reader of the Romance Bandits blog, was on the same tour and brought along a mini Golden Rooster (in joke for readers of the RB blog). So of course I had to pose with the Golden Rooster at the Golden Gate.

More photos tomorrow, along with the announcement of three weeks worth of book winners.

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