HOT: Travel from Chicago to Memphis on 24 July via Amtrak
 

I may ride Amtrak from Chicago to Memphis on 24 July 07 en-route to Leadership Seminar. I may have access to a large stateroom in a sleeper (Family Room on Amtrak City of New Orleans). Please advise ASAP if you're interested.

There seemed to me nothing more perfect in travel than boarding a train just at nightfall and shutting the bedroom door on an icy, riotous city and knowing the morning would show me a new latitude. I would leave anything behind, I thought, for a sleeper on a southbound express.

Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express, on leaving Chicago.

Jono,

Damn, what a literate reference.... Let's go, now!

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond

If only Amtrack would restart their service on the east side of New Orleans. They haven't resumed since Katrina.
I wonder how much it would cost me to fly to Chicago...

If only someone would add a passenger train station in Columbus... For all of the freight trains that wake me up at night around here, and I am in the city, it couldn't be all that hard to get some passenger trains going.:mad:

I'm seriously interested. I was going to roadtrip with a bunch of guys from my chapter but now it turns out I'll be the only one going. and a 4 hour drive to Chi-town sounds much better than an 11 hour drive to Making Easy Money Pimpin Hoes Is Serious (M.E.M.P.H.I.S. if you don't listen to Three 6 Mafia...) Let me know some details.

City of New Orleans
 

The rail ticket from Chicago to Memphis is $89. The Family Bedroom would be another $173 - but split two ways. Something like $176 total or something like that. Departs Chicago @ 8:00 PM on the 24th and arrives in Memphis @ 6:27 AM the next morning.

Just so you know, the Amtrak gives you a lot of room, even in standard coach class, so if you are able to sleep sitting up, you may not even need the sleeper.

At 51 years of age, I'll get the sleeper.