After leaving New York an hour late, we took the Crescent train on our journey to New Orleans.
The journey was 30 hours long but it meant that we’d get to see a lot more of America.
We had our own little room, complete with bunk beds, seats and a toilet (you’d really have to be friends with the person you’re traveling with). You can see a tour of the room here.
It was pretty watching the sunset over Washington.
We tried to get as much WIFI as we could in stations, but it didn’t work too well.
All of our meals were provided in the dining carriage, which was all pretty for Valentine’s day. We sat with a couple from Virginia, who were keen to discuss what food we had / didn’t have in the UK. The asked “d’yall got salt and pepper over in England?” and if we drank tea.
The peanut butter pie was amazing!
Even the buildings were celebrating Valentine’s day.
When we went for breakfast the next morning, the train had been decorated for Mardi Gras. The staff were all so friendly.
The French toast was yummy and so filling.
The landscape changed so much as we hit the south.
Such pretty forests. We kept an eye out for bears and crocodiles.
Places of note included Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia and Tennessee. Over dinner in the evening, an old lady complemented us on how good our English was, after we told her we came from Britain and she hadn’t realized it was our native language…
We pulled in to New Orleans in the late evening.
We shared a cab with 6 other people in to the centre, which was in full swing from Mardi Gras.
This is the view from our hotel room.
And now we’re reunited with Emma and Raven! The party starts in the morning…
Tags: alabama, america, emma, food & drink, me, new orleans, new york, raven, tom, trains, valentine's day
February 18th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
HAHA bloody Americans (not all of them) but that happened to me lots of them would say how good at English I was DOH!! Some of them do really only live in their own little world of America and that is it! x