Amtrak Adventure - Day 11 - New Orleans to San Antonio

Day 11 was our first long daytime train journey. New Orleans to San Antonio, a trip of fifteen hours starting at nine o’clock in the morning. New Orleans station, as pleasant and well-organized a station as one could hope to find,  provided the first photo opportunity with its wonderful mural above the departure gates.

Given we were not sleeping on the train we had reserved upper level coach seats but we ended up spending most of the time in the lounge car which offered seats facing panoramic viewing windows. With a café conveniently downstairs it’s a great way to travel.

Amtrak Adventure - Day 10 - New Orleans and the Mississippi

What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than on a cruise on the Mississippi? And what better way to cruise the Mississippi than on an old-fashioned paddle steamer?

Amtrak Adventure - Day 9 - New Orleans

New Orleans was one of the more eagerly anticipated stops on our tour - a chance to experience the music, cuisine and splendid architecture of this famous city. It's a city everyone who visits seems to love. And it's not hard to see why. 

Amtrak Adventure - Day 8 - Jacksonville to New Orleans

The journey from Jacksonville, Florida to New Orleans, Louisiana was the one segment of our trip that we could not do by train.  The track between the two cities was damaged by Hurricane Katrina and has never re-opened so we took to the road in a hired car.