As often and lately frequently is the case, things didn't go according to plan. Instead starting my trip from Atlanta, I needed to travel back to the DMV. Since the California Zephyr was the trip that I really wanted to make sure I completed, I wanted to do it first. As "luck" would have it, after previously being rejected to attend the Microsoft AI Tour in New York and DC, I'd gotten accepted to attend the event in San Francisco, so now I had a specific date to schedule a