Starting our Train Trip

This post is a bit long. I thought about breaking it into parts, but I can't. You'll see why. Not the actual train My cousin apparently loves the Amtrak train system. In 2013 she responded to my post about bus travel with " Train travel - much nicer - even coach!" So, fast forward to August of 2018 and we decided to plan a train trip. This isn't a verbatim conversation. Let's consider it fiction. "Honey, we should take a train trip! Here's one from Chicago to Seattle and you get to stop off at Glacier National Park. Amtrak should be fun. Everyone raves about it." She smiles at me, knowing that I make these statements and hardly ever follow through. "Go ahead," she says. Well, I think, this should be easy. Amtrak has a vacation planning group called Amtrak Vacations, so I'll just call them. "Hello," I say to the woman who answers, "I'd like to take a train trip. We'd like to see if trains are as fun as people