VACATION PLANNING

The Coast Starlight


We are currently planning for an extended vacation next summer. We traveled Europe for 5 weeks on our honeymoon and loved riding the trains. Train travel is so much less complicated than air travel and lets you sightsee and relax as you head to your destination(s). So...we are looking at doing a "Grand Tour" of the U.S. on Amtrak. The trip would be divided into three major legs:
- Southwest Chief (Chicago to LA with potential stops in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona)
- Coast Starlight (LA to Portland with potential stops along the California coast, definitely in San Francisco)
- Empire Builder (Portland to Chicago with a definite stop at Glacier National Park)
The trip is in the early planning stages but I'm already finding myself researching train travel way more often than I should be!