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Lennybruce
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Hi all,
I am from Amsterdam, NL and have traveled extensively throughout the USA including a 3 month circular roadtrip coast to coast and back from Boston to LA and back. I am thinking now of traveling cross country from LA to Boston. The segment from Chicago to Boston I have done several times so I am familiar with that. The other postings i have read about the CZ vs the SWC were about traveling west and I'll be traveling east. I have plotted out the two routes into their respective day and night segments. The CZ leaves in the morning and the SWC leaves in the evening. Sunset and sunrise times when I'll be starting (May 7 or 8) are just before 8PM and around 6AM respectively. To travel on the CZ I will need to either suffer an 8 hour bus red eye bus trip thru the night (not my favorite thing) or fly to SF the day before and have that extra expense (flight and hotel). So for convenience sake the SWC is a lot more convenient.
So my two questions are:
1) Scenery: I know the consensus is that the CZ tops them all (so one or another I will do that ride one day) but how will the relative scenery be traveling west to east with the segments that are day and night?
2) I will be wanting to get the Lakeshore Limited at 9:30PM. Both the CZ and the SWC arrive around 3PM in Chicago. Is one or the other more likely to get me in on time with the smallest risk of missing my connection?
Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and opinions!
Lennybruce
I am from Amsterdam, NL and have traveled extensively throughout the USA including a 3 month circular roadtrip coast to coast and back from Boston to LA and back. I am thinking now of traveling cross country from LA to Boston. The segment from Chicago to Boston I have done several times so I am familiar with that. The other postings i have read about the CZ vs the SWC were about traveling west and I'll be traveling east. I have plotted out the two routes into their respective day and night segments. The CZ leaves in the morning and the SWC leaves in the evening. Sunset and sunrise times when I'll be starting (May 7 or 8) are just before 8PM and around 6AM respectively. To travel on the CZ I will need to either suffer an 8 hour bus red eye bus trip thru the night (not my favorite thing) or fly to SF the day before and have that extra expense (flight and hotel). So for convenience sake the SWC is a lot more convenient.
So my two questions are:
1) Scenery: I know the consensus is that the CZ tops them all (so one or another I will do that ride one day) but how will the relative scenery be traveling west to east with the segments that are day and night?
2) I will be wanting to get the Lakeshore Limited at 9:30PM. Both the CZ and the SWC arrive around 3PM in Chicago. Is one or the other more likely to get me in on time with the smallest risk of missing my connection?
Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and opinions!
Lennybruce