We have been talking about and planning to plan a trip to the east coast timed to see the fall colors and explore some of the diverse areas of the east coast for a very long time. Well, we’ve finally done it. We leave, by train of course, in less than a week. Along the way we will stop to visit family in Portland, Oregon before heading on to Vancouver, BC for a few days of exploring and visiting. That will be the theme for the rest of this long journey by trains. As always, we expect to take lots of photos and notes and keep a running blog of our adventures along the way. From Vancouver we will take a train across Canada to Toronto. A few days later we’ll be off again for Montreal. From there we head off to have our very own “tango” in Halifax! All told we will spend about three weeks in Canada.
Next we will head south taking a ferry to Portland, Maine. We’ll be there for a few days and then head briefly to Boston and then up to Burlington, Vermont. We expect to be in the heart of fall colors conditions on most of this trip including during this stop. A few days later, we head south and will spend some time including my first visit to the Big Apple. A few days are set aside to explore the nonstop energy of New York before we take yet another train to Washington, DC. We have a long list of things to do at each of these stops and of course that means parks, museums, bike rides, sampling all sorts of food, lots of walking, more food, cozy places to stay and much more. We are going to take advantage of sleepers for the longer train rides. No one said we would be roughing it! After DC, it will be time to starting heading back. But first, there is still one more important stop to make. What would a grand tour be without a stop in the Big Easy! We have several days set aside in New Orleans and expect to enjoy every minute of it. When we finish there, we will crawl back on board and head back west across the gulf states and southwest before we arrive in Los Angeles for a whistle stop and train change. We will take the Coast Starlight back up the coast and arrive in Sacramento before Halloween.
All Aboard!
When you get to New York go to Juniors (www.juniorscheesecake.com) for the best New York cheese cake ever. It took me three days to eat a slice it was so big! Best wishes for your adventure, Bonney
ReplyDeleteThis was an awesome tip and our visit was a highlight. We used a different approach and saved dinner for later so we could enjoy that cheese cake!
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