Emeryville station: Waiting for the train ...	...	Emeryville-Chicago: 2½ days !	Our compartment	Leif and Ghislaine in the Dome Car	The San Francisco Bay ...
...	...	.	Davis and its famous public university	Sacramento, the Capital of California	.
.	In the dining car ...	... coffee in our compartment	.	Sierra Nevada ...	...
Lake Donner	Truckee, the last town in California	Nevada: Winnemucca	Vegetarian, what's that ? --- Look, that's better !	The next morning: Desert in Utah	.
.	.	.	Finally, some buildings !	.	.
.	.	.	.	.	.
Colorado: We climb toward the Rocky Mountains	.	.	.	.	.
.	We are closing in on Denver	.	The next morning, Nebraska: Omaha	Missouri: We leave Nebraska ...	... and enter Iowa ...
.	.	Creston ...	...	Des Moines, a tributary to the Mississippi	Ottumwa ...
... our excellent ticket inspector ...	.	Lunch hour	.	The Mississippi ...	...
Illinois: Galesburg	.	.	.	.	Chicago: Train change ...
... Chicago-New Orleans: 20 hours	Mississippi (Kentucky and Tennessee at night) ...	.	We approach Jackson	.	.
.	.	Louisiana	.	Close to New Orleans: Lake Maurepas ...	... and lake Pontchartrain, very big