October 12, 2026 · Amtrak Train 11, somewhere between Seattle and the Bay Area

On the Road: Train 11 West

The train has stopped, somwehere south of Seattle about an hour since we departed. No idea where though. I couldn’t hear the conductor’s aanouncment through Dua Lipa blasting on my headset and looking out the windows I don’t see the typcial placard annoucning where in the world you are. I’m not a geo-guesser. I see a geodesic-esque dome with the American flag atop about a quarter mile to the south of the train tracks. That building evokes nothing. No one seems to boarding yet. I checked my phone and it said Tacoma exactly and it knows this because of GPS, I asked my ai-agent where I am and it said probably Tacoma given your train schedule and the time since your departure. This is a frozen model running on my DGX Spark remotely and it has some of that information in its context (train schedule) and some baked into the consciousness of it’s vectors. An AI 1500 miles away knows where I am better than I do. Also, I just asked my AI how far it is to Lititz, PA. It guessed 2300 miles without the use of a tool and then using GPS locations of Tacoma and Lititz precisely calcuated the distance as 2321 (not driving distance from Google maps, but straight-line) I don’t even know how far it is to my home.

We’ve left Tacoma. The train is now barreling down the tracks. I’m not sure where it goes next.