Posted on Aug 9, 2023
At 84, he has completed his goal of riding all 21,000 miles of the Amtrak network
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He says he's ridden every mile on the Amtrak rail network, and has never grown tired of looking at the country through a train window.
Who is he? Nat Read is a genuine traveler.
He has visited all seven continents and both the North and South Poles, but some of his best travel memories happened aboard U.S. passenger trains.
He's 84 now, and as of his trip last month to Brunswick, Maine, he says he's now ridden every mile of the Amtrak map. That's about 21,000 miles.
Read said he didn't set out to do it, but about four years ago he was looking at a map and realized how close he was to completing the entire network. He took out a colored marker and noted each leg he hadn't yet finished.
He says he's ridden every mile on the Amtrak rail network, and has never grown tired of looking at the country through a train window.
Who is he? Nat Read is a genuine traveler.
He has visited all seven continents and both the North and South Poles, but some of his best travel memories happened aboard U.S. passenger trains.
He's 84 now, and as of his trip last month to Brunswick, Maine, he says he's now ridden every mile of the Amtrak map. That's about 21,000 miles.
Read said he didn't set out to do it, but about four years ago he was looking at a map and realized how close he was to completing the entire network. He took out a colored marker and noted each leg he hadn't yet finished.
At 84, he has completed his goal of riding all 21,000 miles of the Amtrak network
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