Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Let's suppose you live in Washington, D.C., and your two
great passions in life are baseball and jazz. Great! How about
taking Amtrak's Capitol Limited
overnight to Chicago to see
your Washington Nationals play the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley
Field? The next evening, hop aboard the City of New Orleans
and 24 hours later, after a fabulous dinner at Irene's (my personal
favorite restaurant in the New Orleans French Quarter), you can
be listening to real New Orleans jazz in Preservation Hall on
Saint Peter Street. Since the Crescent passes through Atlanta on
the return trip to Washington, you can stop there for a couple of
days to visit your favorite Aunt Tillie. Sound good? OK, let's start
the planning.
A Little Research Will Pay Off
Once you decide where you want to visit, find out something
about those areas
before
deciding how long you'll stop there.
Every state and most cities have offices established to promote
tourism, and all offer a wealth of information on their Web sites.
Any good bookstore will have travel guides for most major cit-
ies and for every region of the country. Of course public libraries
are excellent sources for free information. But please, take a little
time for this before you start making specific plans. It will be time
well spent, I promise you.
Amtrak Timetables
There are two ways to get an Amtrak timetable: (1) by going online
to www.amtrak.com/schedules, or (2) by calling the nationwide
toll-free number, 1-800-USA-RAIL. It may take a week or more
to arrive. Just be sure to ask for the National Timetable (some-
times referred to as the System Timetable), which includes sched-
ules for all coast-to-coast Amtrak trains. There is also a Northeast
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