spot1181
Lead Service Attendant
Just back from our marathon (6000+miles) jaunt around the country from Cincinnati and back yia The Cardinal, California Zepher, Coast Starlight, a bus, The Empire Builder and The Cardinal. Highlights include: all seven nights on board, good food (although the same menu on all trains), great scenery, good attendents (one excellent), not so great servers on one route, congenial fellow travelers, good weather including ten below zero, one eagle, one arrest, one derailment, one bus ride, one tray of drinks out of control and one ill-placed fart. I still have a case of train lag, the bathroom sways when standing and the bed rocks, Awesome trip, we're planning for next year. A trip report will follow; as soon as I master this hunt and peck tecnique. I gotta get my groundlegs back.