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For the week before Memorial Day, I took a train trip from Ann Arbor to Seattle to San Francisco and back to Ann Arbor. Stayed a couple days in Seattle and San Francisco and basically had a blast. Anyways, I couldn't spend that many days in close proximity to people and not have a few sightings.
The trip from Chicago to Seattle wasn't too bad except that some people were smoking on the train and one of those people found out that Amtrak is serious when it says no smoking. He was removed fom the train in Whitefish. There was also a reminder that they run a G-rated train so I assume that means someone was swearing.
Nothing terribly eventful until I got on the train coming back from Chicago to Ann Arbor. They were pulling random people out of the line to swab for bomb residue. I happened to be one of the "lucky" ones. it wasn't really a pain for me. But there was this woman behind me who was bitching up a storm. She kept going on and on and was talking on her cell phone to someone. One of the Amtrak folks told her to tone it down and she said that she wasn't talking to them. Finally the Amtrak person with the dog came up to her and basically said that if she didn't like she didn't have to ride their train. The woman looked like she was going to say something else but she didn't. She was carrying on again after the check point. I don't really get it because compared to airline searches it was nothing.
Anyways, for the most part the people on the train were very friendly and the staff was top notch.
The trip from Chicago to Seattle wasn't too bad except that some people were smoking on the train and one of those people found out that Amtrak is serious when it says no smoking. He was removed fom the train in Whitefish. There was also a reminder that they run a G-rated train so I assume that means someone was swearing.
Nothing terribly eventful until I got on the train coming back from Chicago to Ann Arbor. They were pulling random people out of the line to swab for bomb residue. I happened to be one of the "lucky" ones. it wasn't really a pain for me. But there was this woman behind me who was bitching up a storm. She kept going on and on and was talking on her cell phone to someone. One of the Amtrak folks told her to tone it down and she said that she wasn't talking to them. Finally the Amtrak person with the dog came up to her and basically said that if she didn't like she didn't have to ride their train. The woman looked like she was going to say something else but she didn't. She was carrying on again after the check point. I don't really get it because compared to airline searches it was nothing.
Anyways, for the most part the people on the train were very friendly and the staff was top notch.
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