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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (51872)	6/6/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

But my experience with Amtrak is that even though you reserve the seats, there is actually enormous flexibility. I have never been on a full train. And the Amtrak agents at the local stations have been extremely helpful and accomodating, to me. 650 seems like a good deal to me. With air travel, you would definitely need to reserve the seats rigidly. I bet you can do whatever you want on Amtrak, whenever you want it. Planes are really tiring, for me. Airports suck dogshit. They are inanimate. Hopeless. Train stations are often beautiful, and there's a lot more room on that train. It can be peaceful. Mellow. Planes are never mellow. They always have to take off and land from somewhere. Yuck. I've met interesting people on the train, more often than the plane. I met a woman I thought was a model, a very swell person, innocent and nice and interesting, and got to sit and talk with her while the chick from Russia in the seat behind us tried to seduce her. (It was more fun than it sounds.) They have decent food and bar cars. Yah, baby. I think you'll love America more and reference her forever on the train. I'd do it myself, if I didn't have to, uhm, do something else. One more bit of unrequested advice: getting on the road each day can sometimes get hard. I would cut the number of stops in half and double the time at each. You get more than twice as much out of it.