My daughter goes to college in Portland and we live near Seattle. She takes either the Coast Starlight or the Cascades back and forth for breaks and sometimes I take it when I go visit. It's so convenient. Once we splurged and got her a roomette when she returned home after a rough finals week. Now I've always wanted to do that!
This is actually pretty funny
Why do some people think they're entitled to a sleeper car when they paid for coach?? Bet he won't do that again.
For what it is, 2 people in a tiny kitchen on a moving train its amazing. I travel transatlantic so I get the full economy food service and its far better than airplane food.
I know. The worst part to me though was the guy expected his parents would be ok with his elderly dad taking the coach seat and they obviously were not. That would have meant his elderly dad would not only not have a proper bed but probably not even have any food while he had 3 course meals in the restaurant.This is actually pretty funny
This is actually pretty funny
The system has changed since 2011 or later... there is no longer the extensive menus... you are provided limited choices..I have breakfast south of Klamath falls North bound and find the $20.00 breakfast good
for the situation and it is a full meal and in comparison to chain breakfast not that much more. And interesting to have conversation with intelligent folks. I ride Coach and they now have the business cars as the coach assignment and the fancy parlor car was also removed and I do wish that tink could have enjoyed that luxury... having the parlor car removed is the reason I don't purchase a sleeper.
Out of curiosity, which college? My DD is starting Junior year at Pacific.My daughter goes to college in Portland and we live near Seattle. She takes either the Coast Starlight or the Cascades back and forth for breaks and sometimes I take it when I go visit. It's so convenient. Once we splurged and got her a roomette when she returned home after a rough finals week. Now I've always wanted to do that!
Very cool that you got to hear the National Parks staff while you were onboard. I've heard they are sometimes there but have never seen them.
How did you find the food to be overall? It looks pretty decent in the pictures.
This is actually pretty funny
I miss the Cascades because of the Ivars chowder .. always had several bowls headed to Tacoma and a fox Island family would pick me up and I would set up a antique show space... with just 4 suitcases in pullylap and I feel so sorry for folks if they think Cascades is the extent of train travel
The rooms aren't that big. We had two sleepers between the 4 of us. We tried playing a game of cards for a while in just one room but it was far too cramped. In fact that's one big, don't break it piece of advice; pare your stuff down to just what you need for overnight in the smallest bag you can manage and check the larger bag under the train (or wherever it goes). You won't be able to access your larger bag for the duration but you really won't have space for it.
What is her major?? A very interesting campus configuration and a nice small town nestled up to the campus
Social Work. She had gone there to play LAX but decided not to play. Forest Grove is a nice little sleepy town. I love it there. In fact, there aren't many places in Oregon I would not move to.
You mean along the river? Yeah, we drove that way one time heading out to Cannon Beach - it is pretty remarkable. We got to one small town that had a real grocery store. We had to wait for a guy in a pickup truck with his dog. No hurry, just going to the grocery store with his dog. There's something truly enviable about that.
