Our third trip to California by Amtrak; visiting Terry's father and his wife; two days of art viewing at LACMA; and a afternoon at El Matador Beach in Malibu.

Visiting Terry’s father and his wife in Pasadena; the Cut Paper Exhibit at the Vincent Price Museum in East LA; Manhatten and Hermosa beaches; and heading home on the Sunset Limited

Our first domestic train trip together: Los Angeles and San Diego, 2007: the MOCA and the Disney Theater; dinner with Hal and Madeleine; the Getty Museum; the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego; the museums in Balboa Park; the USS Midway; the Armand Hammer Museum; and the train trip home

A driving tour of California from San Juan Capistrano to Mendacino, with stops in Westwood, Santa Barbara, Morro Bay, Hearst Castle, San Francisco, and Los Gatos; driving home to Austin in a rented Cadillac (for the price of a Ford Focus, plus a free tank of gas)