The Amtrak Texas Eagle: Fort Worth to Chicago including a stop in Marshall, TX

My morning flight to Seattle from DCA, was my first from the airport since February's aviation disaster that killed 67 passengers and crew, so I was a little nervous. But as most flights do, this one went off without a hitch and I arrived safely in Seattle. The route from SEA-TAC was different than I'd remembered from my 2019 trip. I was able to take the train into town and the light rail to two blocks from my hotel in the Lake Union area. Good public transit is always a p

The way that the Rail Pass works is that each segment counts against your allowance of 10, even if that segment was added by Amtrak due to track work. So, technically speaking, this part of the trip is comprises of Segments #4 and #5 but for simplicity, we will just refer to this as segment #4! The dates for the Lakeshore Limited fell on a day for track maintenance and we transferred to an Amtrak bus upon arriving at the Albany New York station. Because it was mostly overnig

The scenery was fabulous but the staff made the trip even more memorable! Even if the trip was routine for them, they made it special...

As often and lately frequently is the case, things didn't go according to plan. Instead starting my trip from Atlanta, I needed to travel back to the DMV. Since the California Zephyr was the trip that I really wanted to make sure I completed, I wanted to do it first. As "luck" would have it, after previously being rejected to attend the Microsoft AI Tour in New York and DC, I'd gotten accepted to attend the event in San Francisco, so now I had a specific date to schedule a