take a long train trip.

Travel in the fall and see the country leaves . Get a sleep car too.

I liked it, except once the train hit a cow, so that was no fun.

In college, I didn’t have a car so I used to visit friends via train. I took Amtrak a few times from Boston to NY and from Long Island to upstate NY. Much preferable to the bus, but more money.

was the TGV from Paris to Marseilles. Come to think of it, all the train rides I’ve been on have been in Europe or UK. Nothing at all in the U.S.

One train ride I’d like to experience is west to east across the Canadian Rockies.

I don’t live in Europe, but I was in Munich all last August with my university program, and one of the coolest parts of the end of my trip was taking a 6 hour train ride to Prague during my free travel weekend. It was amazing to see the country go by like that. I would love to do it again in America.

After graduation from college I took a long train trip across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver. The trip took 4 days and 3 nights. Met a nice girl from New Hampshire.

and I took advantage of the free rides. The first time was mandatory and we (our training class) went to Washington DC from Chicago. It was called a familiarization trip and it was overnight, then we were put on a bus to Lorton, VA where we got to see the auto train where passengers and their cars get a ride to Florida. After that we toured DC and then got back on the train to return to Chicago. Those that went up coach went back with a sleeper and vice versa.

The next trip was more fun. It was free, coach, (oh well) and I went to New Orleans with a friend. We had a ball so much so that I did it again a couple years later.

I would love to head out west on the train. Hopefully someday I will!!

The longest I’ve done is either the overnight journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai in Thailand, or the trip from Cusco to Puno (in Peru).

I’ve taken much longer bus trips, like the >24 hour trip across the pampas from Iguacu falls to Mendoza in Argentina, with one night’s rest then another 10 hour trip to Santiago in Chile.

train trip was from Sweden to Holland, with 3 small kids. We had a great 2 weeks there and then rode the train home. great memories!

I hear that train trips are especially for people who enjoy the trip and don’t so much care about the destination. Sounds like my kind of travel. Although it probably helps to have a cool destination in mind, too.