“The Sony Alpha 6000 is what you would get if you threw the NEX-6 and the NEX-7 into a boiling pot and sprinkled the fragrant mixture with the latest and tastiest hot sauce,” says Jon Devo, technical writer. Sony’s Alpha 6000…
Category:Chicago
We were on a train five months ago. Was it really just five months ago? Wow, it feels like it’s been a year at least! It was an incredible 2+ days of train travel from Emeryville, California to Chicago, Illinois,…
We booked Amtrak’s Superliner bedroom to travel from San Francisco to Chicago. Meals are included with the sleeper car accommodations, as well as drinks. But we still bought fruits, bread and snacks with us. In this post, I’d like to…
When Sophia, my sister, casually suggested taking the train for our San Francisco to New York trip in February, I could not shake the idea out of my mind. I began researching online—blogs, reviews, forums, news—and discovered Amtrak’s California Zephyr,…
Everything about Wildberry Cafe is big – the menu, the portions, the flavors, and quite unfortunately, the queue for a table. Arrive early like we did! This place was very convenient for us—our hotel was in downtown Chicago, just a couple of blocks…
It snowed most of the time when we visited Chicago—this was last week and three days weren’t enough!—so when the sun finally decided to shine we literally rushed outdoors to take pictures. Our host and my cousin, Rashid, showed us around…