sportridertex

I'm planning a trip from Vancouver WA- Seattle on Amtrak, and I want to take my bicycle with me, there will be two of us traveling, it's really cheap less than $100 RT and that includes the bicycles.

I'm still looking at ways to carry stuff, so rear bike racks are going to be needed along with a set of panniers for both bikes. Planning on taking the Hybrids, SU100 Trek, and a Trek 7.2 as they are the most suited for this type of travel , they already have lights and fenders, just need some kind of rack/pannier.

I want to stay downtown somewhere and explore all that Seattle has to offer, anybody done this trip before, any ideas?

I had had one bicycle shop owner last weekend in Astoria ,Oregon say I needed to box the bikes for Amtrak to accept them, if that is true, that would change this whole plan.