answer:At least it will be summertime. That’s a good time of year to float around the country. Are you in California now? One suggestion I have is getting a last minute cruise or two if you like cruises. You’ll have a room with a bed, and all the food you can eat, some entertainment. The negative is going as a single is more pricey than sharing a room with someone. If you look at cruises less than two months out they can be incredibly cheap. When you are near ports during your train trek you could see what’s available. The repositioning cruises can be really an amazingly good price, but then you might wind up in another country. If you are in CA, you could do a Panama Canal last minute, which is usually 14–15 days and you end in Miami or Ft. Lauderdale. If you’re interested in going to Florida, June would be the best month in the summer. Amtrak stops right in some really great towns in FL. Winter Park is one example where you get off the train and walk right over to their main drag full of beautiful shops and restaurants. On the north end is the Morse museum which is less than $10 and it has one of the largest collections of Tiffany. It’s not a very large museum, but the collection is breathtaking. You can work your way up the east coast on the train. DC, NYC, upstate NY. Maybe you have been to those places already? Other cities to consider on the Easter seaboard are Charleston, SC (I’m not sure if Amtrak stops close to the downtown??) There are cruises from NY or Boston into Quebec. Other stops along Amtrak to consider are Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, there are so many. What do you like to do? Are you very tight on money? Here is a link to www.vacationstogo.com where you can look at cruises. I look there and then usually buy my ticket directly from the cruise line I’m interested in rather than from vacationstogo. Most of the places I named are cities, but I really like spending time in the countryside too. I wonder if there are cheap places to stay for a few weeks out in more rural areas? That I don’t know. Or, if from Amtrak stations that are sort of in the middle of nowhere how much of a chore it is to get to what you would want to see there?