The City of New Orleans train leaves Chicago at 8:05 in the evening, so I slept through the journey through…
Touristing Chicago
While I was in Chicago, I did many of the things a good tourist should do. I visited The Bean,…
Heading south through the Midwest
Leaving Fargo, we entered Minnesota and caught glimpses of farmland usually shrouded in darkness for passengers of the Empire Builder.…
Steel work
The Empire Builder train crossed the state line to North Dakota in the early evening, stopping in Williston to take…
100 published travel tales
wow – that’s a lot of travelling and a lot of tales I’ve told about my travels, interspersed with some…
From the Rockies to the Big Sky
After falling asleep in the eastern part of Washington state, we travelled across the topmost portion of Idaho, crossing that…
Pugent Sound and Cascades
On leaving Seattle the Empire Builder to Chicago travels past the Pugent Sound and through the Cascades mountains on the…
Wide awake in Seattle
There had been only one tourist sight on my list of places to see in Seattle, which has however been…
Getting Greener
I re-boarded the Coast Starlight at midnight. Fortunately it was on time, so I didn’t need to wait too long…
California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento
When I wrote my post introducing this trip I realised that I had not written up many of my visits…
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