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You are doing a smiliar version of a trip we had planned in September, although the opposite direction. We were told that it would be better if we would take the CS to Sacramento. There is no need for an overnight stay doing that.
If you're interested, I could post our itineary. The main thing we did differently is that we were going south from Pittsburgh by way of DC to Atlanta and then to NO and overnight. We were stopping in Tuscon for three nights, so all this took some juggling. Amtrak was very helpful with this trip. Originally, we were going to return from Seattle by way of the EB, but since we have done that both ways completely, we decided to do the CZ as we only only been on that as far as Salt Lake City.
We also had the points and specifically put a trip to South America last January on the card instead of writing a check to build it up. Amtrak was also very helpful with the use of the points. And we had a bedroom from Seattle to Chicago. It cost us 90,000 points and we got back almost 5,000 of them.
We had to cancel the trip because our daughter is having a baby in September, but at the end of this month, we are rescheduling it for late May of next year.
If you're interested, I could post our itineary. The main thing we did differently is that we were going south from Pittsburgh by way of DC to Atlanta and then to NO and overnight. We were stopping in Tuscon for three nights, so all this took some juggling. Amtrak was very helpful with this trip. Originally, we were going to return from Seattle by way of the EB, but since we have done that both ways completely, we decided to do the CZ as we only only been on that as far as Salt Lake City.
We also had the points and specifically put a trip to South America last January on the card instead of writing a check to build it up. Amtrak was also very helpful with the use of the points. And we had a bedroom from Seattle to Chicago. It cost us 90,000 points and we got back almost 5,000 of them.
We had to cancel the trip because our daughter is having a baby in September, but at the end of this month, we are rescheduling it for late May of next year.