So as we woke on the morning well more like early afternoon as we had a very LATE arrival we strirred and opened the curtains to take in the view from the 16th floor of the tropicana resort where we were staying! We could see 4 or 5 off the big casinos including 'new york - new york' and the MGM grand. So wednesday 26th march started with a look around the strip we headed into the MGM grand first, it was so posh and as the golden lion is MGM's mascot if you will ...

After boarding the train on sunday we spent just over 25 hours on it but we had our own little cabin which we played cards and read to keep us entertained. Included in the price was our meals and at each of them we got talking to some nice americans and we swapped stories and chatted for nearly 2 hours at every meal! At around 5pm local time on Monday 24th March we arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We were made up because the sun was out so it was flip-flops, s...

So After our short stay in Boston we were on for another grueling train day Monday 17th March. It was an early start with a taxi to the train station and the 0605am train back to NYC, was a quite train and we pretty much slept the whole way. At NYC after a couple of hours stopover we caught our next train upto Niagara falls, as the train left NYC we followed what we think was the Hudson (river) for what seemed hours till we came to mountains and snowy fields. The...

So we Arrived in Chicago on the morning of Thursday 20th March after spending the night in a tiny sleeper cab room on the train which was an experience. To say that we weren't bright eyed and ready for the day was a bit of an understatement. We caught a Cab to the hotel but we a little early to check in and so spent a couple of hours looking around, got some food and went in the internet cafe. We eventually checked in and went for some sleep and a shower. in the ...

SO just a quick one really as we didn't get up to much in Boston as a few of the attractions and sightseeing bits were closed for the winter so we took time to chill out! On Friday 14th we took an early train up the coast passing by some amazing looking little new england villages would have been nice to get off but oh well there always another time. So we finally arrived at the train station and made our way to the hotel at the airport. It was sooooo comfy the r...