[VIDEO] Grounded Life Travel is a YouTube channel I've discovered when Amtrak announced a fellowship program for content creators to record their travels on Amtrak routes. I'm sure this is really seen as free advertising and perhaps these content creators on their social media get compensation in return for this advertising.
On this episode Grounded Life Travel will is a couple (I do believe they're from Atlanta) take a trip from Emeryville, California back to Chicago on board the California Zephyr. Unfortunately this is one of those trips that I have yet to take the train takes you due west through western Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. Emeryville is just east of San Francisco across the bay.
Since you're going west you go through Midwestern farmlands to the prairie then deserts and the Rocky Mountains going through many tunnels along the way. There is a stretch in California called the Donner Pass which is known for the party that got stranded there during a snowstorm.
Another thing Grounded Life Travel did in this video is give a rundown of their first class accomodation and what types of cars you might find yourself on. Better yet what model car you find yourself on I knew there were different models of Superliner Cars but I've never seen those distinctions broken down before. I've never been on a Superliner sleeper that didn't have a small closet for example.
Their photography ended in Ottumwa, Iowa as their train got up to nine hours late. It seems it started off with engine trouble and then there were other delays and it was in the wee hours of the morning that this couple finally made it into Chicago. They made sure to get a voucher for those delays in the days afterwards.
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