rtwtraveler

Definitely Austin in Texas. When I started my trip I had no idea or clue it would be such a cool place, when I was in New Orleans, I kept meeting people, especially Aussies who said "you should go to Austin, you will like it". And I kept asking myself, "Texas, really?? What the hell is in Texas lol.." and then I realized it. Austin is the live music capital of the world. Seriously. It blew New Orleans away. At least for me. Not to say New Orleans wasn't awesome too, but damn. The amount of people outside was crazy on 6th street. I would definitely move there. Seemed like the best weather, best music scene, best everything.

Haha, fine very well. Well I met this chick at a subway. We start talking, I tell her I am traveling the states. She says that shes always wanted to travel, and so we exchange numbers. Don't hit her up for a day, and then the day after I text her, and she comes over to my hostel. We go get some snacks and she starts telling me about her life, that she was adopted, in an abusive family environment, etc etc but the hostel starts enforcing the closing time, which is midnight so we have to cut it short. Curfew isn't bad but sometimes it can be a bummer. So I ask her what we can do instead, and she says well we can go to my place to watch a movie. Basically she drives me to her place, and we start to mess around, as we are watching a movie on her bed, and at this point we're both naked and all of the sudden, right before we are about to get it on, she flips the fuck out and says with crazy eyes "Were you just about to try to have sex with me?!" I was like.."what? are you crazy? we're butt naked." needless to say, she first says she would take me back to my hostel, but once we are at the door, the bitch says to me "im sorry I can't take you home, you made a move on me and I didn't like that", I was like "are you crazy, you BROUGHT me here to "watch a movie" and your the one that got naked, and my phone is dead". I couldn't call a taxi. She starts threatening to have her roomate kick my ass, to which I wasn't about to fight someone in a strangers city in a strange city, so I was like, fuck this, peace out. I go outside, walk a few blocks, get on a main street, mind you it was freezing by then. Thankfully I see a taxi and hop on. Chick costed me a good 10 bucks in taxi fare, but right after that I got to the hostel and the very next day, was in bed with a cute Japanese girl I had met. She wore some strange long socks for blood circulation, mind you she was about 20 years old, but anyways that is another story in itself lol..

No way, I bought my rail pass from Amtrak for 850 bucks. To travel to all these cities by airplane would have costed me much much more. Also traveling by train is so scenic, we were going through Utah to Denver Colorado and an Eagle was flying next to us, matching our speed as we were circling a mountain. We were on the edge of the mountain! Airplanes can't do that. Also, you can walk around in the train. Beats air travel any day.

Just to give you an IDEA, I spent $300 one time to go from Boston to Miami, which with my rail pass is considered ONE segment. My rail pass includes 18 segments, or stops, over a span of 45 days of travel. ALL for under...drumroll...$850 dollars. Yeah, you can do the math and see a Rail Pass is totally worth it. You could go to 18 different cities for 850 bucks if you really wanted to. I still had 7 segments left by the end of my trip to give you an idea and a week left of travel.

Amtrak sells rail passes for anything from 15 days, to 30, to mine which was 45 days. They used to be cheaper before. They have gone up alot in price recently.

Here you go: http://i.imgur.com/FjdF817h.jpg

A little bit messy, ok alot, but basically there you have the cities and departure/arrival times. Each day its the same times, so you can't get them wrong. Always be there early in the station, and call ahead to make sure the train isn't running late. You can tell that I originally planned to end it in Long beach, but instead went to LA, then straight to Austin. Was best decision I ever made.