DEPARTING MAY 14, 2012

Day 1: Depart New Orleans 1:55 PM. For Chicago with a roomette for overnight sleeping.

Day 2:REMEBER WHEN TRAVELING ON AMTRAK TIMES ARE ONLY A REFERENCE POINT. 9:45 am arrive in Chicago. Our first stop will be the waterfront where we will take a narrated Skyline cruise where you can enjoy the skyline of Chicago. by River and Lake. After our cruise we will visit the   the highest building in the Western Hemisphere for a breathtaking view of the Chicago area. You don't want to miss stepping out on the glass sky walk for a fantastic view. We will have time to freshen up at our hotel before going out for dinner. Tonight we will feature a treat found only in Chicago the “Pizza Pot Pie” Breakfast & Dinner

Day 3: Breakfast is included at the hotel, before departing for the Chicago Botanical Gardens. On arrival at the Garden you will be taken on a 45 minute tram tour to show you the highlights of the Garden you will then have two hours to explore the gardens on your own, take photos and visit the gift shop. After three hours in this spectacular garden you will wonder where the time went and most travelers will always want more time to enjoy the Gardens. After a stop for lunch at Navy Pier (On Own) we will continue with our sightseeing tour as you travel through Chicago's main business section, one of the financial centers of the world and always bustling with activity. We will visit the "Loop" and State Street - the great street where Chicago's fame began. Travel by the striking Richard J. Daley plaza with its acknowledged masterpiece, the Pablo Picasso sculpture, created specifically for Chicago. You'll take a ride on Wacker Drive, the double-decked thoroughfare that wends its way under the city. Then travel over the Chicago River, made to flow backwards by one of the world's greatest engineering feats. You'll see the famous, white Wrigley Building announcing the beginning of the Magnificent Mile and Michigan Avenue where Chicago's most exclusive stores exhibit their wares. You'll see Chicago's elegant seven-level shopping complex the renowned Water Tower Place. For the shoppers you will have time to shop the magnificent mile before retuning to the hotel to freshen up. Tonight we will feature an evening of dinner theater at Tommy Guns Garage, Not long after the turn of the century, in a decade known as the Roaring Twenties, the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was outlawed and strictly prohibited. Nevertheless, men like Alphonse Capone and his mafia family, refused to adhere to the law, opening illegal speakeasies across the city of Chicago, offering alcohol, gambling and hotbox entertainment. Tommy Gun’s Garage is an Audience Interactive “Speakeasy” that offers a musical comedy review wit da gangsters, da flappers and YOU!!!!!(uh, dat’s audience participation). After a delicious sit-down dinner, join “Vito”, “Gloves”, and da “gangsters” and da “flappers” for non-stop comedy and dangerous fun. You will be transported back to da 1920’s complete wit da boss’s 1928 Model “A” Ford, Roaring Twenties music and memorabilia from da Twenties. Da mugs and da molls dance and sing da Charleston and udder musical selections from Cole Porter to George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and more…. All played by Chicago’s Sinfully Orchestra. Be ready to hide your hooch (alcohol) cause we could get raided by da coppers at anytime. Be careful, you could get pulled up on stage at any time to perform a sobriety test given by Officer Murphy. Breakfast and Dinner

Day 4: This morning we will visit the spectacular Field Museum and make a stop at the Rock Bottom Brewery we you will have the opportunity to taste 8 different beers and have lunch before boarding the train. Your train departs Union Station at 2:15 and arrives in Whitefish Montana at 9 PM the next day. Meals included on the train Breakfast and Dinner

Day 5: All day train to Whitefish. On arrival in Whitefish transfer to hotel All meals on train included.

Day 6: Your morning is at leisure to enjoy an optional tour to Glacier National Park. The park operates a daily shuttle and offers many optional sightseeing tours. If you cross into the Waterton Lake part of the park you will need a passport.

Day 7: You have another day to enjoyanother Optional tour to Glacier National Park we suggest you take one of the 52 mile trips across the going to the sun road. You will be transferred back to Whitefish in time to catch your train departing at 9:16PM for Seattle.

Day 8: This morning you arrive in Seattle at 10:25 Am. Transferred to your hotel will be provided and have the rest of the morning to enjoy the Pikes Market Place. Included in your package is a two day Seattle hop on hop of pass so you can see the sites of Seattle that are the most interest to you. Tonight we feature a seafood feast at the Crab Pot Breakfast and dinner.

Day 9: The day is at leisure for you to do the things that you want to do. Perhaps you will want to do an underground tour of Seattle, take a cruise on Lake Washington, a harbor cruise, see the fish ladders, visit the Space Needle or the Science Center. Tonight we offer an optional cruise to Tilicum Island for a night of native dancing and Salmon roasted over an alder fire. Breakfast.

Day 10: Your train departs Seattle at 9:45 am and arrives in Portland at 1:50 pm. On arrival in Portland You will have a Portland Sightseeing tour featuring a view from the downtown area and the Portland Rose Garden. Tonight we feature an optional dinner cruise. Breakfast

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Day 13:The train travels  along the west coast of California departing San Francisco at  8:50AM and arriving in Los Angeles at 9:00 PM. You will overnight in Los Angeles in a centrally located hotel..Breakfast.

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Your expert guide will lead you on a discovery of Los Angeles' most famous and infamous places. You'll see the Chinese Theatre and its celebrity footprints, those legendary streets Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Strip and Rodeo Drive, the Farmer's Market, the La Brea Tar Pits, Olvera Street, Chinatown and all the other sites you've seen countless times on TV and in the movies. You have time to take a stars home tour if you like before departing on 3:00 PM train. This train takes you through the southwest part of the country through Albuquerque New Mexico, and on to New Orleans 

Day 15: Train through the Southwest. 

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Sunset limited and will go through Tucson, El Paso, San Antonio and on to New Orleans. All meals while on board the train are included.

Day 16: Arrive New Orleans 2:55 PM.