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Railtrip USA 2007

by Thomas Boesgaard

Visiting USA for a month, and touring around the country by train. That was the plan.

The journey went along like this:

New York City -> Chicago -> West Glacier -> Seattle -> San Francisco -> Yosemite -> Reno -> Boulder -> Chicago -> Washington D.C. -> New York City.

177 photos · 494 views
Pretravel postcard
Hotel 31 - basic room
Gearpacking
American classic breakfast
Another New Yorker bicyle for the collection...
Not too happy with trainfood...
In the loungecar
Coachclass seat
Chicago union station
A view through the loungecar
Dinner in coachclass
This is Montana....
Baby Ruth chocolate bar
Thomas and Marianne
Making ourselves at home...
AMTRAK
Logan Pass
Summer-snow
Herd of wild goats
Old tree
Great view from the Highline trail
Squirrel couple on a date
Mountain-scenery
Another nice little squirrel
Selfportrait of Marianne and I
Postcard-view
The happy wanderer
Lot's of small waterfalls crossed the trail
Wild marmot
Crossing a snowfield
Very varied terrain - and surprising amounts of snow
Enjoying the view
Happy photographer
Surprise! A squirrel!
A sketching break
Rockscape
It's close to photographic perfection...
Rockformations
The trail just kept going on
The curios marmot
That's close enough
Squirrel's are the best!
The "Grinnell Glacier Overlook" trail was steep
Grinnell Glacier
Posing marmot
Yellow flowerfield
Burned forest
Dead tree's galore
It's a deer dear....
Charcoal tree
Great food!
Goat at Mt. Brown Lookout
Lake McDonald
Farewell mister Goat
Nice view along the trail
Bathing in Lake McDonald
Shiny grill
Mountain pizza
"I give up - there is to much"
Freight train
Weeping dots in the alley
Pike market
Dungeon crab at the flying fish
Dungeon crab remains
Apple from Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory
"Mmm - this is gonna be great..!"
Mexican breakfast
At King street station
Lounging with beer and chips
The train...
Lunch at Isobune
After sushi, we had a burger
Red classic car - ready for cruising
On the beach
Grey and black
Golden gate bridge
Enviromental streetart
Old rusty muscle-car
Breakfast at french café
Our rented bikes
Letterboxes
Redwoods
Large and old redwood
Tall tree's
The famous San Francisco fog
Burger at Lori's diner
Steak at Lori's diner
Waiting for the bus
On the way to Yosemite
Marianne in a large chair at Curry Village
On the Mist trail
The first waterfall from a distance
Guess what this squirrel is eating?
Nevada falls
Another double-selfportrait
Tree eaten by ants
Dead tree's reaching for the sky
Some kind of bird
Nevada and Vernal falls
Marianne's new earring's
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