Automobiles, Trains and Planes!

We are always in a hurry in this world.  Constantly trying to rush from one place to the next.   But we if we took the long way?   Would we enjoy the journey or just be anxious to get to our destination?   The Traveling Hillbilly decided to take advantage of some extended time off and planned an epic road trip with a friend.  A great way to test this theory out.

All Aboard!

I've never been to some of America's most popular and well known spots, so why not spend some time traveling through places I've never been like Montana and Wyoming?  As we started researching the "must" places to visit on our journey, we decided we needed to add a train trip, for a leg of our journey.   The train leg  then turned into, let's do a cross-country train trip!   We planned to take an overnight train from Memphis to Chicago.   After a little time in Chicago, we'll head across the country up through Wisconsin, Minneapolis, across North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington.  From Washington, we head down to California and take a train along the coast to Los Angeles.  We've both taken trains in and around Europe but never in the US.   We don't expect our US Amtrak experience to be on pare with some of the European trains, but we feel it will be more relaxing than traveling the roads.  While we couldn't squeeze Wyoming in, we will still get to see a lot of places we've yet to explore.  Let the adventure begin!