San Francisco, CA to Trempealeau, WI; Condensed

Left SF around 9p. Took bus to Emeryville, twenty minutes away. Waited two hours for train. Left at 11.30p. Slept three hours. Woke up around 5.45a somewhere in Northern California. Arrived in Klamath Falls, OR around 9.30a. Waited two hours for bus. Left Klamath Falls by 11.30a. Snow chain broke at 1p. Chains were replaced at 2.30p. Left auto shop, got stuck in ditch at 3.00p. Out of ditch, 5p. Arrived in Pasco, WA at 12.30a. Waited three and a half hours for train. Left Pasco at 4a. Slept five hours. Woke up around 7.30a outside Spokane, WA. Waited in Spokane, WA for eight hours on a train from Seattle. Left Spokane, WA at 3.10p. Met folks on train. Played cards. Wrote. Read. Listened to iPod. Heat goes out in lounge car (where I happened to be assigned because the train was full) sometime Saturday (AM or PM, not sure). Slept in lounge car Saturday night. Seat to myself after 10p. Slept little in cold car. Continued across North Dakota in daylight. Arrived in Winona, MN at 2.45a. Trempealeau, 3a. Total travel time: 78 hours. Approximate wait time (for trains and busses): 19.5 hours. Awesome.