The second day of travel on the Empire Builder-the journey from Minot North Dakota to the edge of Glacier National Park-is one of the longest train rides in the United States. Heading west, you have two time changes-to mountain time and then Pacific time. Plus, it being summer, it woul...
but that the Amtrak boxes were generously sized. I stopped by the Amtrak station a week before we left to buy a box and they had a used one I could have for free. What the heck, I'm cheap, I took it home and it was going to work fine. ...