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   John Carlos Baez (johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:33:55 JST John Carlos Baez

   I'm trying to go from Riverside California up to the Topos Institute in Berkeley for a week, to talk to @epatters about his collaborative web-based modeling software using double categories.

   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