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By Penny Nakamura / The Bulletin
September 27, 2009
Let the odyssey begin, I thought, as the Amtrak conductor yelled “All aboard!” at Portland's Union Station.
Yes, they actually still shout “all aboard.”
So my family and I took our surprisingly comfortable, wide seats, which would later turn into our beds, and looked out the train windows....