From 21 April - 20 May 2006, James Benedict Brown toured the United States of America and Canada by train, courtesy of the North America Rail Pass. This blog is his travelogue of one amazing trip.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Chicago to Denver
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Really enjoying your travelog, you write well. At some point, tell a little about your experiences with wireless access and getting power for your powerbook aboard the train... thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to write comments. Andrew: due to issues with travelling light and getting in insured, I'm not actually taking my laptop with me, but using fixed connections in each major city. As far as I know, outside Amtrak's metropolitan lounge and the north-east corridor, there is no wifi on Amtrak trains. In Canada, it's available only in VIA 1 class in the Corridor.
Adron... the maps you see here are from the nifty new interactive route map on amtrak.com - I wish I could continue with them as I head into Canada, but unfortunately not! Have a look for yourself and you can search routes between any two Amtrak destination cities.
This blog is archived day by day (see below). Clicking on a day shows you all the posts from that day, but they appear in anti-chronological (backwards) order. So on days with more than one post (the number of posts is in brackets next to the link) you'll need to scroll down to the bottom of the page and read up.
The trip started on 21 April 2006 and finished on 20 May. Posts before 21 April detail the trip's preparations.
2 comments:
Really enjoying your travelog, you write well. At some point, tell a little about your experiences with wireless access and getting power for your powerbook aboard the train... thanks!
Keep up the fine work!
Andrew
Hi everyone...
Thanks for taking the time to write comments. Andrew: due to issues with travelling light and getting in insured, I'm not actually taking my laptop with me, but using fixed connections in each major city. As far as I know, outside Amtrak's metropolitan lounge and the north-east corridor, there is no wifi on Amtrak trains. In Canada, it's available only in VIA 1 class in the Corridor.
Adron... the maps you see here are from the nifty new interactive route map on amtrak.com - I wish I could continue with them as I head into Canada, but unfortunately not! Have a look for yourself and you can search routes between any two Amtrak destination cities.
*j*
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