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Tomorrow morning by train (ICE) from Nijmegen to Düsseldorf, Germany and then from there to JFK. The real journey starts next Sunday on the Maple Leaf and will ultimately bring us to LA. At least as far as Amtrak is concerned. From LA we'll drive all the way back to Miami and fly back from there...

I really can't believe that my sincere question about AGR-points was immediately moved from this forum. Makes me feel like some kind of intruder who doesn't abide the rules. Ruud

I know I'm entitled to a lot of AGR-points for our upcoming trip. I even used Alice's US address to collect them and she extensively tried to explain why I should collect them. But to be honest: I couldn't care less. At the same time - reading all The_Traveler's fanatic efforts to get extra...

Last episode of documentary series Future Express is about traveling with Amtrak from New York via Chicago & Seattle to San Francisco; it's called The American Dream and you can watch it here: http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=9742962

Dutch public television is broadcasting a series of 26 documentaries on trains all over the world entitled "Future Express". Filmmaker Rob Hof is meeting all kinds of people on the train that are "traveling to" a better future, hence the title. The first episode shows the LD train between Cape...

So we have this multi-city-itinerary from NYP-SFC. There's one tricky segment in it: we take the Maple Leaf from NYP to NFL, watch the falls and turn back the next day by Greyhound to BUF in order to catch the LSL to CHI that same evening. (BTW: we arrive in Buffalo at 7.45 pm and leave from...

When we first bought our 15-days passes - around Newyear - and emailed our itinerary to Amtrak's reservation system, they told us we were too early: reservations could only be made within 180 days of our first 'segment', which was/is Sept. 20, 2009. So they told us to try again by the end of...