We have been safe and sound and resting a bit at home. Sorry I didn't get back sooner to wrap this up. Amtrak wasn't quite the breeze home that we'd hoped for. Instead of 11pm departure, it was closer to 1am departure. We were exhausted and stressed. The good news is that our bedroom was made up for sleep and we hit it. Clay was on the larger bottom bunk and I was up top on the narrower one. I think we both slept pretty well all things considered, but we were exhausted. Since we were late departing, we wouldn't arrive in Raleigh before late morning instead of 8:39am. I decided that meant a shower was in order for me. It turned out that the private toilet in our tiny bedroom was also our shower stall. It worked out fine. Sorry, no photos! We went to the back our sleeper car to get complimentary ice water, orange juice and coffee. We had it with the last of the snacks we'd taken from the Independence lounge and had breakfast in our little bedroom. It could have been worse as a trip home and it could have been better. All things considered, it was OK.
The sleeper experience did put an end to Clay's proposed cross country by sleeper train trip. I had been arguing against it but not against a multi-segment train trip. I definitely did not want to spend multiple nights in a train bedroom. Clay has now agreed with me. So, there's that. We still might book a sleeper accomodation for daytime travel just for the privacy and peace vs. coach and potential problems. That is if we decide to do it at all.
We have gotten our onboard bill charge by ACL. It was $420 dollars for all our excursions. Still not convince if or when we'll cruise on ACL again. What made this trip was the fact that there were only 43 passengers on a 100 passenger ship. You can't plan on that happening again! We'll see.
Little Bob hits the road
Little Bob hits the road
