This is looking down the hall to our bedroom. Each room has doors on them and curtains so you can do anything you want in that little room... you just have to find the room!
If anyone we know wants to do an Amtrak trip this is the one thing I would tell you. UPGRADE. Get a sleeping car. When you upgrade you get all your food included and you have a private room. We played a lot of cards, ate a TON, drank some really really bad wine we smuggled on the train (they have alcohol but it is very expensive).
Remember its a train. The sleep is not great and through Nebraska it was quite rough. Pop a sleeping pill and sleep when you can. You are not going to feel like it is the best sleep you ever had in your life. This was our sleeping car when the beds were laid out, and Sam laying on the bunk underneath me. You have a room attendant that comes and puts down your beds and puts them up and wakes you up if your train arrives when you are sleeping. ITS WONDERFUL!
Dining car. It kinda starts feeling like you plan your day around your meals. The food is actually VERY VERY good and the service is wonderful. You have what they call community eating, meaning if you don't have 4 people in your party they seat you with people. We got to meet all sorts of people that way. We even sat with a Amish couple, they loved Sam and I. 
The views from Dinner one night in the Dining Car. OMYHELL it was gorgeous. 
This canyon is called Gore Canyon and the only way you can see it is by rail or kayak. It was so gorgeous. We saw Bald Eagles, elk, deer and it was breath taking. They have a viewing cart you can sit in and the entire car is windows. GORGEOUS!
Sam in the viewing cart. They would announce over the intercom which side of the train would have the best views. So if our room was on the wrong side we would go up to the viewing car. Get your sea legs on because it is kinda hard to walk, but that makes it an adventure!
They stop along the way and sometimes you can get off the train. This is in Glendwood Springs, Colorado.
So that is an abbreviated lesson on Amtrak. If anyone ever decides to go give us a call and we will tell you the "in's and out's". You should put going by rail across the Rocky's on your bucket list. It was gorgeous, relaxing an a experience of a lifetime. LOVED IT. But give your riding partner a gas pill because gas and a small sleeping car is pretty brutal. :-)
I had to throw this picture in. Its a picture of Sam in front of his high school in Le Mars. I was so surprised how small Le Mars is and how FLAT everything is. This was the first time I had been to Nebraska or Iowa and it was a treat for me to see some more of this beautiful country we live in.
Now Sam and I are getting ready to go to South America on Tuesday.. CAN'T WAIT!
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