train trip on the Coast Starlight

It's a 6 hour trip but we had a sleeper which gives access to the Parlor Car and wine tasting which we joined in as the train ran through vineyards and a huge expanse of fields of strawberries, lettuce, broccoli, herbs - at one place it was parsley as far as the eye could see. 

Then it ran along the coast, quite undeveloped looking - no condos, just the odd trailer park and occasional surfer. More built up near Santa Barbara as we had dinner and watched the sunset. 

A lovely trip, not long enough. All too soon we were at Los Angeles' Union Station, into a cab and at our downtown hotel.