We did some sightseeing in Chicago Thursday morning and really enjoyed the city. There were many beautiful buildings to look at and the weather was nice. It was cloudy in the morning but became sunny later. We started with a walk to the Navy Pier and looked at the skyline from there.
We then walked on State Street and Magnificent Mile. We found these really cool apartment buildings at State street, on the north side of Chicago river.
Chicago river.
We went back to the hotel and picked up our luggage and took a taxi to the Amtrak station. We got on the train at 2.20 pm and our long train journey (54 hours) began. The picture below is from our stop in Denver the next morning.
We saw so many beautiful things from the train. Rocky Mountains was something really fantastic. The photo belows show Glenwood Springs, one of the nice little towns we passed by. We could get off the train for a couple of minutes on most stations which was nice.
When we had passed Elko in Nevada, early Saturday morning, we suddenly had a broken rail in front of us and the train was standing still for 4-5 hours before the rail was repaired and we could continue. Then we had to stop for another two hours in the middle of the desert because we had to get a new conductor on the train since the other one had worked for 12 hours and had to get off his shift. The next stop after that was Winnemucca, which had a really big station house, see the photo below:-)
This is from our Stop in Reno, Nevada, it is Janne together with one of the conductors, and also a photo of our train.
We were six hours delayed when we finally arrived in Sacramento, so we missed our train from Sacramento to Turlock. Luckily, George and Linda agreed to come and pick us up in Sacramento so we reached Turlock at 10.30 pm Saturday evening.
