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Like a mini bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich without a bun, for people with a low-carb diet :)

Wow!! I enjoyed the food we had on the SWC last month (aside from a breakfast burrito which did not at all agree with me--and looking back, I think it was the pico that was off; our SCA was very kind in getting me ginger ales). As far as I know, they didn't run out of anything, including liquor...

We left LA on the 14th. :)

We spent a couple of hours there last week waiting to board the SWC. It did get very busy. People declined to wear masks despite the request of the attendant, while the TV news was going on about the high level of transmissibility of the new COVID variants. People were grabbing giant cookies and...

We just spent two nights on the SWC last week. The regular train noises weren’t nearly as disruptive to my rest as the next sleeper’s toilet flushing in the night.

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Gee, I hope you're wrong...I'm scheduled to be on the 4 on the 14th 😭 What would people here recommend...should I book a flight proactively, or wait and see? Would anyone at Amtrak be able to tell me definitively that the train on the 14th will be cancelled?

More cancellations: (From the alert on amtrak.com)

As a formerly Canada-resident person who has worked in service jobs there, Canadians are much more used to seeing US$ than vice-versa. Many stores have exchange rates posted, most banks have no issue with exchanging US$, and most Canadians in a service job will take your US$ tips in stride. If...

Hello! I'm a Vancouverite transplanted to the California desert near Joshua Tree National Park. I haven't travelled Amtrak in a while, but I started out taking the train from Vancouver to Calgary as a kid, took the Metroliner up and down when I lived in Philadelphia in the 70s-80s, and the...