{"id":597,"date":"2023-04-26T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=597"},"modified":"2023-04-26T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:02:04","slug":"amtrak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/04\/26\/amtrak\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A shout out to my father who celebrates his birthday on the day I departed Austin. The photo below was taken in Ontario in 1997 when I was cycling across Canada. My parents came up from Vermont and joined me in travel for a day or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to my Canada trip, I had gotten my parents a dial up internet connection so they could follow along. In subsequent trips my parents were both fans and helped with logistical support, e.g. posting and formatting pages I sent from Australian outback via email into blog posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three weeks before departure, I was glad I made a trip to visit then and see where I could help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last day before departure was more relaxed than hectic preparations with moving and cleaning. I went through my bike stuff and sorted what I was taking and not. There are a few extra things such as food for the train and an entire box of cliff bars but I should have most everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After packing and shopping, I dropped off my panniers at a motel downtown and then dropped off the rental car. Cycled over for a teeth cleaning and then back to drop my keys with a neighbor. After that overnight at the motel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The train was on time. I put my panniers in a duffel and put it as checked luggage through to DC and dropped my bike off for the baggage car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first leg to Chicago, I have a roomette shown below. The seats fold down to a bed for overnight. For the second leg, I have a coach seat. I can sleep in Amtrak seats overnight but prefer not to do it two nights in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A shout out to my father who celebrates his birthday on the day I departed Austin. The photo below was taken in Ontario in 1997 when I was cycling across Canada. My parents came up from Vermont and joined me …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,56],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","category-washingtondc","tag-amtrak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}