How to Use the Amtrak Rail Pass to Plan the Ultimate Summer Train Trip

How to Use the Amtrak Rail Pass to Plan the Ultimate Summer Train Trip

A first-hand accounts of how one writer uses the $500 Amtrak rail pass to criss-cross the US over the course of one month.

my Amtrak rail pass and contra dance trip

The main reason that posts here have been absent for the last month is that I was gone on a 30-day trip with an Amtrak Rail Pass. I went to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville and Carrboro/Chapel Hill (not on Amtrak), Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and home. Almost half of my trip was in North Carolina, where I’d never been before, with contra dances four evenings and a weekend. And visited friends in North Carolina, and m…