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I am very enthusiastic about riding trains. Not the ones with which people commute to work. I am in awe of the long hauls. I have already ticked off the box of riding trains in Russia, Kazakhstan, India, New Zealand, and China. In the U.S., I have crossed the country four times by Amtrak already. Now, with being back in the U.S. for some time and wanting to catch up with friends in Portland and in Idaho, it is the perfect opportunity to close a little gap of the “Empire Builder” route in the Northwest (between Portland and Sandpoint, ID) and to eventually ride on an Amtrak train in winter.

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I drag my trolley case through downtown Chicago. It feels good to walk after spending the last couple of hours on the plane that brought me from Baltimore to Illinois. The sky is incredibly blue, the air fresh, and on this early Sunday morning, you could almost smell fall approaching. I was on my way to Union Station, where my train would leave in a few hours. Westbound again. 

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Well, there was this funny slip of speech I made a couple of times while hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail: I managed to mash together “South Lake Tahoe” and, for whatever reason, “Salt Lake City”. So I came up with something like “Salt Lake Tahoe” and it became that running gag between John and me. However, after having finished the trail, we got back to Reno and got a rental car.

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The United States offer some epic landscapes and what better way is there to explore them than by going on an epic road trip? As we had a couple of days to spend before attending a friends’ wedding, we decided to get a rental car in Las Vegas and drive to Wrightwood not by taking the shortest, but the probably most scenic way!

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