Recent content by Bobalski

Confirming what most have said, I rode the CZ last Sunday/Tuesday and the sleepers were at the rear.

I come across on the CZ which left on Sunday from CHI and arrived in Reno this morning. On that train were quite a few people who were booked on Sunday's EB, including the guy in the roomette next to me, who were placed on the CZ all the way across and then will travel north to Seattle tonight...

Currently sitting in the Metropolitan Lounge at Chicago. The CZ eastbound is over 12hrs late and the westbound, my train, which was due to leave 30 minutes ago has not boarded, 'delayed' is flashing on the screen and there is no indication when we may be leaving... :(

Just make sure the connecting door is closed if you decide to aim for the bullseye... :P

Just another point on the cellphone issue, I had my name and cellphone on all the bags, but I'm on holidays from Australia and as the guy at NOL told me, they cannot call my cell because it is an International number. He gave me his direct line and he knew we were staying at the Downtown...

Just to clarify. I checked the bags at NYP. I had travelled down from Boston on the regional and we went with the red cap and checked them when we arrived at NYP. As I said, the issue is not the misplace of the bags, it's the lack of communication. I asked the guy last night at NOL had they...

I know a few people here have been following my trip in my blog linked below. They have read pretty good things about AMTRAK so far, but I must say I'm very disappointed in a situation we've had over the past 24hrs. When we arrived at New Orleans aboard the Crescent last evening, 2 of the 4...

Well the day has finally arrived, we leave our hotel in LAX in the next hour to head to Union Station and pick up our tickets for the next 12 days AMTRAK adventure. I note that my trip report/blog has had quite a few visitors from the link below, I hope you enjoyed the adventures of our...

She needs to go back to work. Bummer...lol

Thx Alan. We are flying back from Canada on the 16th and placing our daughter on a late night plane back to Sydney (Oz). After we checkout of our LAX hotel on the 17th, we intend getting the Flyaway bus from LAX into Union Station at around lunchtime. I'll do all necessary ticketing then, well...

Just on the barcode thing. I am leaving from LA Union Station. I have the confirmation barcode email on my laptop which is with me,but I didn't bother printing it out in Oz because I have plenty of time on the day we leave (leaving 18:15 but need to checkout of our hotel at midday). I was just...

Arrived safe and sound in LA. Head to Canada on Saturday for our first ski leg before the great AMTRAK adventure.

Thx Tumbleweed

What are you using to connect? A USB dongle? iPhone?

In my 2008 trip blog (linked in sig) there is a couple of pages of stuff from when we did a few days in SFO. There is a neat little video I took of our cable car trip from the top of Nob Hill all the way to Fishermans Wharf whilst standing on the running board as well as some pics from an...