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I spent $600 on a train ticket from Halifax to Vancouver with stops along the way, and did it by myself. Besides being a great trip, I was exposed to a greater

• wallflower 16y ago
  The interesting thing I've found out about taking a train cross country (one of those big double-decker Amtraks with observation deck) is that the people on these trains are relaxed. And interesting. I met a couple of cute girls who were doing something inscrutable - it turned out they were making their own Sudoku puzzles by hand with pen and paper. Even the families are cool. Because if you're traveling on the train from Chicago to New York, you're not in a hurry. The only drawback is if you don't pay for the expensive sleeper cars - sleeping is difficult. To put it this way, there are times where I remember not not sleeping.
  • paulgb 16y ago
    Definitely. One of my fellow passengers said it best: it's like a hostel on wheels. I would do it again in a second. I agree about sleeping being difficult, especially as a tall guy. At some point though, rolling through the prairie provinces in the middle of the night and looking up at the stars from the observation car while playing cards or talking with new friends, sleep seems overrated anyway.