The journey begins

Finally on the train.

We're off to quite a multi-modal start for this trip. We car-pooled to the Amtrak station, caught the train to Richmond and then transferred over to BART for a ride down to SFO where we will fly out tomorrow morning. For today, we settled for a shuttle to our hotel (Radisson) to regroup.

We had a little side adventure as we needed to jump back on the shuttle to SFO and do some creative traveling and catch BART to San Bruno and a long walk through huge malls to find a passport shop still open this evening. Turns out we need to have two recent photos each to get our entry visa. Who knew? Well actually it was spelled out at the embassy website...[UPDATE: Turns out we didn't need the photos after all, as we found out when we went to a Visa Service in the middle of Bali to extend our visas 7 more days. Next time we go to Indonesia we'll start with a Visa Service and avoid all the uncertainty and confusion.]

Family photo night and a visa adventure to remember.

We're going to track and leave a few breadcrumbs showing where we are or have been on this trip. To see where we are or have been so far, try this link: http://trackmytour.com/h5vhw#101043

We had a much needed and tasty room service meal and then spent much of the evening going over our packing and trying to wrap up some of the many activities we are about to leave behind.