Taking The Train From Los Angeles To Chicago For Christmas.
Well well well….after much discussion, my wife and I decided to bite the bullet and buy train tickets to Chicago for Christmas. After looking for weeks and weeks for reasonably priced airfare for the dates we wanted, we started talking about taking the train and turning our trip into an adventure. With some debates about the 40 hours on the train each way, we bought the tickets yesterday and there is no going back now! Figuring that we would be having children soon, we decided this would be a pretty cool adventure for the two of us to take by ourselves. Sure, it cost a little more than the expensive plane tickets would have, but we get our own bedroom on the train! Our food and drinks is included in the price, we get the newspaper delivered each morning to our room along with bottled water and coffee, and we even get turn down service after dinner. I have never even had turn down service at a hotel – never mind on a train. Add in the fact that we will be contributing way less pollution into the environment by traveling by rail instead of flying, and we are really excited about this experience.
