(Source: Washington Post, July 7, 2016)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Shortly before Memorial Day, my husband, Matt, and I pulled our three children out of elementary school a week early and boarded Amtrak’s Empire Builder, which loosely follows the trail of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. We got on in St. Paul, Minn., headed for Portland, Ore. It promised to be a romantic, slow, idyllic trip: more than 37 hours of Internet-free educational time for our kids, and — without the pressure of driving long, bland highways — two bottles of wine for us.
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