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I've taken this trip a couple times! It's a genuinely wonderful experience. Every Amtrak trip I take has some memorable experience I hope to never forget. Tip:
by chaps 2y ago
I've taken this trip a couple times! It's a genuinely wonderful experience. Every Amtrak trip I take has some memorable experience I hope to never forget.
Tip: get the sleeping car and eat every meal they offer, especially if you travel by yourself. You'll be sat with random folk who almost always have interesting stories to share.
- burkaman 2y agoAgreed, and the food is surprisingly good in my experience. It's not like the stuff you get from the cafe car on a normal Amtrak ride.
- kccqzy 2y agoI've done that a couple of times and completely agreed. One time I sat in the dining car right next to a retired realtor who told me a whole lot about real estate in Los Angeles. (Unfortunately I forgot most of it because at that time I was a renter and haven't bought any properties yet.) Another time I was sitting next to a frail-looking grandma assisted by her granddaughter. The grandma was very talkative and told me a lot of memories from the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.