Amtrak Tus-Hou

Training:  Arizona to Texas

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Taking advantage of a discount from Amtrak, we decided to take a little train adventure. I flew from Denver to Tucson to join Jada for our railroad trip to Houston. 

All of the best photos were taken by Jada.

The "Blood Moon" full lunar eclipse seen from Tucson.

The Tucson train station.

Jada enjoyed traveling in our roomette.

While roomettes occupy both
sides of the train, these
full-sized rooms use almost
the full width of the train.

Even though the train was late, they
let us enjoy our breakfast in the dining car.

It was good to let the train take us through this haboob.
The dust and strong winds seemed no problem for the train,
but would have been troublesome in a car or RV.

The haboob made for weird light in the afternoon sun.

I-10 is only a few hundred yards away,
but not visible through the haboob.  However,
the distant mountains do peek (peak?😄) above the haze.

Soon, the dust cleared as we passed east of Deming, NM.

Eastward of Akela, NM the track
dips to the southeast away from I-10
and crosses the lonely desert
with no view that includes any
signs of humanity.

This fun camper had a cool artsy design in the
El Paso train station.  During our stop there,
we learned about the "Burrito Lady,"
who sells her large burritos for $5 to
train patrons and others, during this longer stopover.

This is the Rio Grande River,
viewed soon after pulling out
of the El Paso Station.

For dinner, the staff serves a nice meal
on linen tablecloths with this wonderful dessert.

Our roomette converts from a small,
two-seat dinette area into
bunk beds for sleeping.

While the bathroom was clean and easy to use,
the shower in the morning was a challenge aboard
the bouncy, shaking train.
We won't try to describe climbing out &
back into the top bunk for a bathroom run in the middle of the night!

Downtown Houston seen from the train station.

After picking up Kelly VI, my RV,
we drove to our spot for the
next two nights.  This Boondockers Welcome Host
was a young family on a small farm-like property
north of Houston.  They and their animals
were most welcoming to us as we
used their spot as our base for
visiting Jada's friends who lived nearby.

One of our hosts at the BW spot.

At our BW site.

At our BW site.

We noticed many of these
interesting anthills
throughout Texas.

From Houston we steered for San Antonio.
Of course, any Texas road trip includes
a stop at Bucees!