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dining car. What's not to love about that? From Vancouver, you'll
take one of the Amtrak Cascades back across the U.S. border to
Seattle, where you can spend a few days before flying back to
New York. You can also take the Coast Starlight down through
the Cascade Range to San Francisco and fly home from there.
(Note that you can also begin this trip in Chicago, but the rail
itinerary from there to Toronto is longer at close to 24 hours. The
trip involves a night on the Lake Shore Limited while traveling to
Buffalo, then a connection with the Maple Leaf. Of course, that
would be perfectly fine with me: the more trains, the better.)
The Santa Fe Trail: Chicago-Dodge City-Santa Fe-
Grand Canyon-Los Angeles-Chicago
Here's another one that's one way by train, the other way by
air. There's only one train in this itinerary, the Southwest Chief,
but what a trip it is! You'll leave Chicago in the late afternoon,
crossing the Mississippi just about dark. Are you a Western his-
tory buff? Get off the next morning at Dodge City, Kansas, and
visit Boot Hill Museum. Then get back aboard the Chief the next
day and travel on to Santa Fe, where you'll be dazzled by the sil-
ver jewelry made by Native American craftspeople. Two or three
days here is a must, and your stop should include a side trip
to the famous art colony of Taos. Back on the Chief again, you
should get off this time at Flagstaff, Arizona. The Grand Canyon
is just 80 miles away, and an Amtrak bus will be waiting at the
station to take you there. (Do they think of everything or what?)
It'll be bedtime when you reboard the train a day or so later, so
get a good night's sleep and be ready for an early morning arrival
in Los Angeles. Take your time seeing the sights in L.A., then fly
back to Chicago. If you live on the West Coast, you can take this
trip in reverse. The one thing you can't do, of course, is begin this
itinerary somewhere in the middle.
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