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Sometimes when people who don’t like trains say ‘what? 18h? You can drive it in 8’, I say yes but that’s 10h of not riding a train; which sucks.
That confuses them.
@skinnylatte I couldn't agree more. You might enjoy this humorous article about taking Amtrak from NYC to LA, which only affirmed my love of train travel.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html My favorite bit:
"Kansas shares a border with Colorado. I never could have imagined that I would one day say this, and I know many people will be disconcerted by the statement. They will wonder if, this whole time, they have been reading an avant-garde work of science fiction, or perhaps a Mad Lib. “Is magical realism always this scary?” they will ask themselves. Some will claim I am lying. Many will assume I am wrong, demented or a clumsy typist."
