Earlier this week, AltTransport’s Brian PJ Cronin reported on getting from San Francisco to Los Angeles using only public transit . Well believe it or not, long-distance travel isn’t just a West Coast phenomenon: You can make a similar journey from DC to New York. East Coast transit junkies rejoice!

Like the San Francisco to LA route, this 200-plus-mile trek would rival the cost of airfare and might take a few days to complete, but it requires only half as many transfers.

Since President Obama is in the news for his new (leaked) transportation bill (among other events), let’s begin at his house. From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in our nation’s capital, we walk a few blocks to WMATA’s Red Line and ride three stops to Union Station.

At Union Station we transfer to the MARC Penn Line and head north to Perryville, Maryland, northeast of Baltimore. Not counting Amtrak, there’s a gap in regional rail service between Perryville and Newark, Delaware, so here’s where we switch to buses.

In Perryville, look for “The Perryville Connection”, Cecil County’s fixed-route bus line to Elkton, Maryland.

Once in Elkton, hop off at Union Hospital, and wait for DART’s Route 65 bus to Newark, Delaware. The 65 bus will drop you off at Newark Station, where you can connect with SEPTA’s Regional Rail system on the Wilmington/Newark Line.

Ride SEPTA until you’re at 30th Street Station in Center City Philadelphia. Grab a cheesesteak and transfer to the Trenton Line (not the West Trenton Line!). You’ll want to ride all the way to the terminus at Trenton Transit Center.

After arriving in Trenton, hop on board New Jersey Transit’s Northeast Corridor line and take it all they way to Penn Station in New York. Boom. Done.

If you’re more ambitious, getting beyond New York is pretty easy. Headed to The Hamptons? Connect to the Long Island Railroad right at Penn Station. A real transportation geek, however, would probably rather take Metro North from Grand Central Terminal to Poughkeepsie, home of the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge.

Unless you count ferries as public transportation, you won’t be able to get all the way to Boston using this approach. The trip requires a commuter rail ride from Manhattan to New Haven, and another ride on Connecticut’s Shore Line East commuter rail to New London, where you can get a ferry to Block Island, followed by another ferry to Point Judith or Newport, Rhode Island. It’s a long bus ride to Providence from either one, but once you’re there, it’s just over an hour on commuter rail to Boston. I’ve been wondering what it’d be like to try this route, so if you do make it all the way to Boston, let me know. I’d like to meet the world’s biggest public transit nerd.