This was our Amtrak train. We were catching it at close to midnight, hence the terrible shot, and we were staying in what is called a roomette. It's a small room that has two chairs in it which fold down into a bed and there is a bunk attached to the wall which folds down. As soon as we had clambered onto the train we climbed into our roomette and after snapping the obligatory "I'm on a sleeper train picture" we promptly fell asleep exhausted!
As you can tell from the photo, it really wasn't the biggest of spaces and perhaps not as glamorous as I had hoped for or built it up to be in my mind. However I slept well so that's good, but the best was yet to come. Waking up in the morning was amazing. You were whizzing along at speed through the most amazing mountain and forest scenery and you could just lay there and watch the sunrise. We didn't snap many photos of it and to be honest it was pretty hard to do so but it was spectacular.
Shortly after waking up we crossed the state line and entered Oregon! I had, up until that point, never left the state of California so I was watching our progress on google maps ready to leap out of the train at the first Oregon station stop to touch the floor of another state and tick it off.
Having just woken up and not showered yet I don't think we look too bad...ish.
So the rest of the journey up through Oregon and into Washington (state number 3!) consisted of us lounging in our roomette or in the parlour admiring the views, with our breakfast, lunch and dinner served in the dining car. How swish!
By the evening we had cruised into Seattle and were ready for the our next adventure!
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Looks amazing! One of my 40 before 40 is to go on a sleeper train; waking up in a different city is the ultimate form of multi-taking!
ReplyDeleteIt was so lovely. I would definitely recommend it, just maybe getting the bigger sleeper room would make it that bit better!
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