After the best nights sleep we headed to Union station to catch our train to Vancouver. The train was a double decker...unfortunately there were no sleeper carriages even after 3 days of trying! We had to grin and put up with the thought of 51 hours on the coah class of the train :( After a about 8 hours we stopped in Minneapolis for an hour as we were really ahead of schedule...we dashed into the ticket office in the last ditch attempt of getting some sleep ov...

Spent 12 hours on the overnight train to Chicago this morning, man.... seriously not going to cope with a 51 hours train to Vancouver in a few days!!! Sooooo unconfortable trying to sleep on the chairs, especially right next to the carriage doors with people going in and out all throught the night! Anyway, once at Chicago station we hailed a cab to take us to our Pentalon Hostel. Not one cab driver knew this place, which was supposed to be 5 mins from the statio...