I'm trying to go from Riverside California up to the Topos Institute in Berkeley, to talk to nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqce5tr2fm052m6vgqvcdj8az22nkj5wfc3pjj96eje06cxdfn3gq4g0kn4 (nprofile…0kn4) about his collaborative web-based modeling software using double categories:
https://topos.institute/work/catcolab/
It should be great, but here's the catch: I want to take a train, to reduce carbon emissions a bit.
To go the whole way by train I could:
leave at 6:40 am and walk from my house to Hunter Park Station in 50 minutes
take a train from Hunter Park leaving at 7:40 am and arriving at LA Union Station at 9:20 am
take a train from LA Union station leaving at 9:50 am and arriving in Oakland at 9:06 pm
walk from the train station to a bus station in 10 minutes
take a bus leaving 9:27 pm and arriving in Berkeley at 10:03 pm.
walk to a hotel
The good part: the train ride up the Pacific Coast is beautiful. Some people go all the way up to Seattle! The bad part: it starts brutally early. The really bad part: there's only 30 minutes to make the connection in LA, I've never done it before, and there's not another train that day.
Another plan: I need to visit my aunt near Santa Barbara. I can drive there in 3.5 hours, spend a a few days there, then drive to the train station. I hear they have long-term parking. I leave the car there, then:
take a train from Santa Barbara leaving at 12:21 and arriving in Oakland at 9:06 pm
walk from the train station to a bus station in 10 minutes
take a bus leaving 9:27 pm and arriving in Berkeley at 10:03 pm.
walk to a hotel
So, the same thing but starting later and avoiding the tight connection! A lot of driving, and if there's no long-term parking available the plan collapses.
Any good ideas? (Yeah, I could just not go.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggC5N6GnqFg
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2025-03-02 07:41:47
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