As It Happens6:50At 84, this avid traveller has ridden every inch of the Amtrak
The United States’ national rail service, known as the Amtrak, is expansive. It stretches 34,440 kilometres across 46 states worth of mountains, valleys and plains.
And Nat Read has travelled each and every inch of it.
The 84-year-old’s journey chugged to a stop last month in Brunswick, Maine. After looking at a map in 2019 and noticing how much of the “spider web” of routes he’d already travelled over his life, Read pulled out a marker and traced the routes he hadn’t yet journeyed.
While the pandemic stopped his travels
