But they’ll probably concede at least it’s better than the bus. Tell them that you’re traveling through seven states in fifty-three hours, and they’ll know you’re crazy. In the age of cheap airfares, tell most Americans that you’re travelling Amtrak cross-country and they’ll raise an eyebrow. Eastwards, the Zephyr travels some 4,000 kilometres across California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa before coasting into Chicago’s Union Station three days, two nights and two time zones later. But it is possible to get your kicks without heading out on Route 66.Ĭhugging along at less than one hundred kilometres an hour (and on creaking mountain track sometimes much less than fifty), the California Zephyr is billed as North America’s most scenic train ride. Usually, taking the scenic route through the USA requires an empty calendar and plenty of gas money. When I wake again the sun is up, the land is flat and we’re somewhere in Wyoming. He leaves without a word and I finally have the luxury of stretching out across two seats.
It’s also the end of the line for my seatmate, a man who has spent the last twelve hours and most of Nevada expressionless, sitting on the edge of his seat with his hands clasped between his knees. It’s three in the morning in Salt Lake City, Utah, and from the window of the train, the city is a clustered column of lights.
With only a few days to get from one side of the country to the other but still wanting to take the scenic route, Megan Czisz decides to make tracks across seven states in only fifty-three hours. The USA rivals Australia in size and scenery, and seeing it all requires an empty calendar, and, if you’re really serious about it, heading out on the highway in a vintage Cadillac.
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