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So we left New Orleans right on schedule at 1:45 on board Amtrak’s “City of New Orleans” made famous in song. Appropriate for a train that connects tree very musical cities: New Orleans Memphis and Chicago! Here’s a picture of our train, the double-decker Superliner: The staff and most of the passengers were very happy about the [...]

Hi all! This is the second morning of HugTrainUSA and I’m raring to go for another day! From New Orleans, I head to Chicago with an extended stop in Memphis, TN (Central Station, 545 South Main Street, Memphis, TN 38103) tonight at 10 PM for 40 minutes! I need your help this year and I would love for [...]

We pulled into Atlanta around 9 AM and after getting permission from the conductor (always respect your train conductor), I went up to the platform and waited for Julie Hauldren to turn up at our pre-arranged time! Julie, because she rocks, matched my “spirit of the season” sparkly blue Santa hat with her own bunny [...]

After more than 24 hours of bus travel from Montreal to Greenville, SC via NYC, DC and Charlotte, NC, I was met at the Greyhound station by Doug Cone, owner of Nullvariable Web Consulting at midnight. Doug enthusiastically and patiently showedme around downtown Greenville and brought me to Trey Pennington‘s (to whom this year’s trip is [...]

So the cat is out of the bag! And I’m glad for it! I am happy to announce that a very responsive and helpful Nokia are helping HugTrainUSA out this year! How? providing a phone: the very cool N8 with a 12 MP camera and Xenon flash) which we will be using to document this year’s [...]

Debbie Horovitch from Social Sparkle & Shine has been a huge help in kickstarting our sponsor search by helping with the creation of our sponsorship documents. Here’s a little about Debbie in here own words: “My background is 15 years with Toronto ad agencies as a media buyer and national media sales rep to agencies, [...]

We are very grateful for eModeration‘s very generous support of HugTrainUSA Here’s more information about them in their own words: “eModeration Limited is an award-winning social media management company also offering a bespoke social media strategic and social media crisis consultancy. Based in London UK, with offices in Los Angeles and New York, eModeration provides multi-lingual community [...]

Hello everyone, Just wanted to let you know that we are already planning the next HugTrainUSA We plan to leave from Atlanta on 12/26 and travel to New Orleans, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Whitefish MT, Chicago again, DC and Orlando with some long and short stops in between. We hope to see (and hug) you [...]

Final details are being.. err… finalised but HugTrainUSA 2010 is set to depart from Boston’s South Station at 9:30 PM on December 27! More details will be shared as they become available. Like last year, we are supporting Mental Health America but this year we are collecting onlion donations through firstgiving.com You can pay for [...]

Final details are being.. err… finalised but HugTrainUSA 2010 is set to depart from Boston’s South Station at 9:30 PM on December 27! More details will be shared as they become available. Like last year, we are supporting Mental Health America but this year we are collecting onlion donations through firstgiving.com You can pay for [...]