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During the years of 2010 and 2011, the readers of one particular blog might decide to try a train travel vacation. That blog happened to mention the train trip taken by member of the Good Morning America crew back in September of 2008. The blog writer compared the trains pictured on that morning show to those that had been in use in 1912. That was the year when one turbaned man took a train ride across the United States.

After that Persian visitor departed from New York City, he traveled up to Boston, and from there to New England and Canada. His route was almost the same as the route taken by the Good Morning in America crew back in 2008. In fact, this short visitor traveled even further than the members of that crew. Chicago was one stop on his train ride.

Vacation plans used to place people on a train. The long ago visitor mentioned in a 21st Century blog did not, however, arrive in the United States as someone on vacation. Neither did he come here in order to promote a book, although he did list his occupation as “author” on the manifest of the ship that brought him to America’s shores.

So why did that visitor endure the trials then associated with train travel? Did he hope to share with others a tale about using a sleeping compartment to on a train? No, in fact, this unusual man chose to sleep in his train seat. He never paid to use the train’s sleeping quarters. While traveling in that upright position, he completed a speaking tour of the continental United States.

Now it is interesting to note the absence from this speaking tour of a stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. That is where a number of Amish people live. Those peace loving people share many of the beliefs espoused by the turbaned man who used a train to travel across the United States.

Today in Lancaster, a number of tourists choose to expand the itinerary for their vacation. They find that the can not resist the appeal of the Lancaster countryside, and so they include some unexpected train travel in their vacation. They board the train that carries them through the Lancaster countryside. They marvel at the Amish carriages and at the Amish farmers, clad in a simple black outfit.

Has any Amish resident of Lancaster County ever taken a train travel vacation? Perhaps they have. In the movie Witness, an Amish mother and her son travel by train to Philadelphia. They were planning to visit with relatives. Unfortunately, they never managed to complete their anticipated vacation.

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