Tag: rail pass

• April 7, 2022

  Pacific Coast Highway Day 1: Seattle to North Bend, Oregon (Aug. 11, 2021)

  Initially, my cross-country route had included a rail trip from Seattle to San Francisco, but about a month before I was scheduled to leave, the Lava Fire in Northern California burned the Dry Canyon Bridge, stopping service for Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train south of Klamath Falls and causing major backups clear to Colorado from diverted…
• September 23, 2021

  Couchsurfing in Seattle

  (August 9) Traveling overnight on the Empire Builder train from West Glacier to Seattle, I slept most of the way. Normally after sunset, I take my inflatable sleeping pad to the observation car and stretch out in the narrow space between the seats and the windows, but on this particular stretch, I was so exhausted…
• September 12, 2021

  Glacier National Park Without a Car, in the Rain

  (August 8, 2021) I woke up this morning around 5 AM to the sound of heavy drops splashing against the rainfly of my one-person tent. It’s the same tent I took on my solo, cross-country train trip in 2017, but that time, I somehow managed to get from Atlantic to Pacific and back without having…