I boarded Amtrak’s Empire Builder at Seattle’s King Street station this past Saturday afternoon. It was the start of a 20-plus day trip that would include seeing the Red Sox play two games in Minnesota, two in Boston and two more in Baltimore. When I arrived on the platform at Seattle’s King Street station, a…
About 30 years ago, I had been to a high school reunion in Connecticut and had stopped to visit my brother who lives near Galesburg, Illinois. I booked the California Zephyr from Galesburg to Davis, California, where I spent the night and caught the southbound Coast Starlight from there down to L.A. the next day,…
I have mentioned here on a few occasions that I prefer traveling by myself. My wife and I have traveled together quite a bit, but now we’re retired and she has a couple of horses to keep her occupied. Me? I’ll never get over the love of travel. But what is it about traveling solo…
There are five bedrooms on the upper level of an Amtrak Superliner sleeping car. Let’s start with the reasons FOR spending the money to travel in one of these rooms. Compared to the roomette, it’s much bigger. There’s a sofa-style seat just as you enter that pulls out perhaps a foot to become a bed…