Eva has an overly romantic view of train travel.

[conuly]

Nevertheless, her big dream for her life is to ride in a sleeper car to... somewhere. Anywhere.

Tickets to San Diego (to visit family, of course) would be $2200 for the lot of us. One way.

Where the heck can I go that's cheaper than cross country, that satisfies the desire to spend a day in a train sleeping and eating in the dining car (so a jaunt to Boston won't do it), and that has something for us to do once we get there? I'm entertaining all options!

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[conuly]

Oooh, I forgot about the border crossing. You know, they didn't used to make you show an ID just to go back and forth between Canada and the US, did they?

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I've only ever crossed it as an alien and a child, in a car. We certainly had to show ID but who knows, if the answer to "are there any aliens in the vehicle" had been "no", would they actually have checked.

But they definitely do now - though I believe there's now something sub-passport level which USians/Canadians can use to cross the border. (I mean, I've not done it by train, but I'm pretty certain they'll check either on the train or you'll have to troop off the train, get your documents checked, then get back on.) But I understand it's very easy to cross the border these days if you're a citizen of either country, my Canadian cousins do it all the time. (In fact, they do it just to visit family elsewhere in Canada because it's quicker to go via Maine.)

[conuly]

Yeah, a passport card instead of a book.