Plan B

I've had to change my plans for various reasons and the Seattle leg of the trip has been cancelled.  This is a big disappointment as I was looking forward to discovering the city and visiting my cousin, Gillian, and her family.

On the upside, I was able to bring forward my train trip to Chicago by two days at no extra cost.  I'll now be spending four days in the Windy City instead of just two.

So the new plan looks like this:

16 July	Paris – San Francisco
16 – 25 July	California
26 – 28 July	San Francisco to Chicago aboard the California Zephyr train (3924 km in 51 hours) – via the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Utah Desert to Salt Lake City, across the Rocky Mountains, past the canyons of Colorado, through the plains of Nebraska and the rolling hills of southern Iowa, over the Mississippi River to Illinois and the Windy City California Zephyr
28 July – 2 August	Chicago
2 – 8 August	New York
9 – 11 August	Toms River (New Jersey)
11 August	NY – Paris