ugacrew

No matter how old you get there's still the urge to ask 'Are we there yettttt???', LOL. I know I would with a road trip from STL to SEA. Gimme three hours in a plane with my laptop as a DVD player and I'm set with a Diet Coke and peanuts.

zargof

Ahh Medora, I've heard it's a cool place to visit. Word of advice to everyone, don't let your kids get a summer job there...

zargof

I'm different, as I'd like the drive, but only the first time. I like to see new stuff, but if it was same old, same old, then maybe not. Still prefer it to flying though as airline seats are always too cramped.

ugacrew

What airline do you fly? Is it Untied (misspelled on purpose)?

Lord Lionheart

I was merely jesting. We took the train from LA to Seattle and it took 30 hours to get there. You see some great sights you'd never see on the plane or freeway. Here's a few of the sights we saw from the sleeper compartment on the train.

meauxna

Gorgeous photos!

And I never knew the Coast Starlight went through KFalls!

Lord Lionheart

Yeah, at least it did in 2001. I doubt they've changed the railroad. The journey started in Downtown LA, up the coast a little to Santa Barbara, past Mount Shasta, through Klamath Falls, OR. Through Puget Sound, WA to Seattle. Great fun.

zargof

Well I've flown on quite a few, and it's always a problem. The best airline I've found for domestic is AirTran, and international is Virgin

ugacrew

I dig AirTran. Not as cheap as they used to be but they get the job done. I flew them when they were ValuJet from IAD to ATL at the time. Now my airline of choice of course is SW even though AT serves MCI.

zargof

The trouble is now I'm in Iowa the local airport (CID just for you as you like the airport TLAs ), the only airline that flies anywhere I would want to go is Delta *spit*, who I refuse to fly with after persistent bad service.

tonrob

The train can potentially work out good value for us - as those with non-US passports can get massively-reduced railpass fares. Depending on exactly how far you want to travel it can work out much cheaper that regular coach fares. You still need to tag on the regular sleeper supplements if you want a bedroom though, but they to can be great value if you time it right (and mot definitely not if you don't...)

ugacrew

I also use the international ICAO codes as well. Our country code here is K. The UK is E. So you would be KCID. Heathrow is EGLL. Just a pointless factoid.

I totally feel you on Delta even though I have a cousin who flies for them.

another bloody yank

Travel nerd.

ugacrew

Thank you! Travel nerd at your service.

another bloody yank

If (only) I had the $$$ and the time I would do it in a minute. I think it would be fantastic, and I would get to stay on terra firma. Well, not so firma on a train...