My husband is dead set on taking an Amtrak trip. I think he just wants to experience the high speed train. Any of the local trips from around here are coach and we would have to go some distance to get a sleeper car. And after looking at the prices! I just can't see paying up to $1,000.00 so the 2 of us can take a 17 hour drive and get 3 meals and sleep in a 6 x 7 room! And then when we get there we have to rent a car and get a hotel! If we did this I would at least want to make sure we had a scenic trip. So I looked at Chicago to Denver. It would be about $2,000 and we would be sleeping most of the time we were going through the mountains.

So I looked into cheaper train trips. There is a 3 hour train trip in Bardstown Ky, $75 a piece. You get a gourmet 4 course meal and have a ride through the mountains in Ky. Not quite the mountains out west but what the heck. The cost is a lot better.

Retirement for him is going to be hard. He wants to travel but that's so expensive and he isn't the easiest person to drive with and I'm not the easiest person to have at the destination point.