The Mashburns have another summer trip and again we are heading West. We will spend a day in Portland and three days in Seattle. I will, once again, blog during the trip so we hope you enjoy riding along with us.
Here is the itinerary…
Tuesday, June 28th – Drive to Lamy, NM and catch Amtrak’s Southwest Chief to Los Angeles
Wednesday, June 29th – Arrive in Los Angeles, change trains to the Coast Starlight to Portland
Thursday, June 30th – Arrive in Portland and spend about 24 hours
Friday, July 1st – Take Amtrak’s Cascades train from Portland to Seattle
Saturday, July 2nd through Monday, July 4th – Spend time in Seattle
Tuesday, July 5th – Board the Coast Starlight back towards Los Angeles
Wednesday, July 6th – Get off the Coast Starlight in Sacramento, take a bus to Stockton, get on a San Joaquin train to Bakersfield, then off on another bus to Los Angeles. In LA, board the Southwest Chief back to Lamy.
Thursday, July 7th – Arrive back in Lamy and drive back to Amarillo
In case you wondering why the whole train-bus-train-bus ordeal on our return trip, The Southbound Coast Starlight does not arrive in Los Angeles before the Southwest Chief departs, so we have to get off and do this weird routing.
As of right now, nothing is happening that should disrupt this schedule like last year. Does not mean something will not happen, but so far so good.
I also want to publically tell our friend James not to order too many pay-per-view movies this year while he house sits.
I hope you enjoy and will follow us on this adventure.
I also want to add that our prayers go out to all those affected by the incident that happened to Amtrak’s California Zephyr on Friday.
Well, we hope they get the California Zephyr replaced/repaired pretty quickly because we are planning a trip in the fall and that is the train that we are supposed to be on.
There are several trips planned by our traveling place that are supposed to use that train so maybe all will be in place before we are to leave—better be!!
James, I think pizza is delived pretty quickly to that neighborhood so if you can figure out which remote works what and have the movies, that game they have will be good exercise so just keep cool !!!! Hope all goes well with the trip—we will be following along so keep us posted-
One of my favorite things to do in the summer is follow you all’s saga. Seriously. I love it. Have a great trip!
I so look forward to your posts. Have a great trip!!