{"id":675,"date":"2015-11-12T04:42:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T04:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=675"},"modified":"2015-11-12T04:42:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T04:42:05","slug":"crossing-the-united-states-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the United States by Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapTour\/?appid=206ca24e42954a2ca0229a7fd6f5902d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-676 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/storymap.jpg\" alt=\"storymap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/storymap.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/storymap-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>In December 2014, we decided to travel back to New York from California by train. Amtrak&#8217;s California Zephyr and Cardinal routes took us one-way with a change in Chicago for less than $250. We didn&#8217;t have sleeping cars, but the leg rests in coach served us fine enough. The amazing views, which I&#8217;ve put in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapTour\/?appid=206ca24e42954a2ca0229a7fd6f5902d\">story map<\/a>, make the train one of the best ways to see the incredibly diverse American landscape. Click the map above and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a taste:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.51.09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-683 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.51.09.jpg\" alt=\"2014-12-15 14.51.09\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.51.09.jpg 768w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.51.09-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.57.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-680 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.57.11.jpg\" alt=\"2014-12-15 14.57.11\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.57.11.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2014-12-15-14.57.11-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapTour\/?appid=206ca24e42954a2ca0229a7fd6f5902d\">story map<\/a> to see where these are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2014, we decided to travel back to New York from California by train. Amtrak&#8217;s California Zephyr and Cardinal routes took us one-way with a change in Chicago for less than $250. We didn&#8217;t have sleeping cars, but the leg rests in coach served us fine enough. The amazing views, which I&#8217;ve put in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}