'It might sound strange that a person looking to expand her world would choose not to fly, but after a year of feeling desperately disconnected from myself and others, I wanted to reunite with the land and its people in the way that feels most intimate.'
During elementary and middle school, I lived in a suburb in the shadow of this Pacific Northwest city. My parents were hungry for our young family to experience everything, organizing trips to California, Oregon, and Vancouver. As a child, my world here was more adventurous than the life I’d built for myself as an adult.
My journey from Chicago to Seattle started in The Metropolitan Lounge, a Union Station marvel that’s only available for Amtrak’s Business Class, Guest Rewards Select Plus, and Select Executive members, as well as sleeper car passengers. Its high-speed internet, work stations, television, a children’s play space, luggage storage services, and showers make it the perfect place to recharge before connecting to a different train on a longer-haul journey Westward.
Riding through a shock of yellow canola fields, abandoned and dilapidated homesteads from the 19th centuries, and the plains covering the Bakkan Formation—the largest continuous oil resource in the lower 48 states—a private pilot working in the oil business told me he rode Amtrak because he hated commercial flying, namely how strict and policed it was. He told me he loved the train so much, he used to routinely make the 18-hour commute from Columbus, Wisconsin to Willingston, Montana.
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