{"id":267247,"date":"2026-04-14T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:05:07","slug":"amtrak-california-zephyr-why-id-take-the-53-hour-train-ride-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267247\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak California Zephyr: Why I&#8217;d Take the 53-Hour Train Ride Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you get to spend 53 hours not being in a hurry? As a reporter and a drummer <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/moving-from-austin-to-new-york-city\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">living in NYC<\/a>, it&#8217;s a rare experience for me. I spend my days working and my nights practicing or playing shows with my band. Every time I go outside, I can feel the rush of the city around me. Even if I have nowhere to be, the hustle energy is infectious.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one reason I love long train rides. Although you&#8217;re traveling far, there&#8217;s nowhere to go as the country passes you by. Taking the full California Zephyr route solo meant 53 hours with no WiFi, no familiar faces, and no plans.<\/p>\n<p>This was my first time spending two nights on the same train, and I found that with more time, I was able to settle into this slower pace of life more deeply than on, say, a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/30-hour-amtrak-train-overnight-tips\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">30-hour trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was so refreshing, and I&#8217;d jump at the chance to relax into the long journey again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How often do you get to spend 53 hours not being in a hurry? As a reporter and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7625,116695,116693,116694,7,9,8,4419,116698,12043,8077,116699,13052,2882,116697,116696,22238,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-267247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american-west","10":"tag-amtrak-california-zephyr","11":"tag-amtrak-ride","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-california-headlines","14":"tag-california-news","15":"tag-chicago","16":"tag-dramatic-view","17":"tag-emeryville","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-favorite-way","20":"tag-february","21":"tag-hour","22":"tag-long-train-ride","23":"tag-many-aspect","24":"tag-train","25":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}