This Saturday at 2 p.m., I'll be boarding Amtrak's California Zephyr and taking it to Denver. I'm pretty excited about this trip -- and am hoping to post text and photo updates from the train on Thrillarama, Chicagoscope's companion website.

I had hoped that TypePad's iPhone application would do the trick, but although it posts text just fine, photos are handled badly and appear fuzzy and pixelated. I've discovered a couple of possible workarounds that use either CellSpin.net or Flickr.com.

Amtrak wasn't my first choice for transportation. I had originally wanted to take a Greyhound bus from Chicago to Denver, changing in Omaha midpoint so that I'd see a nice range of rural America, albeit from the interstates. Although a couple of people suggested I might get decapitated, I decided on Amtrak because Greyhound didn't ultimately seem as if it would have been a particularly relaxing experience.

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