From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) Subject: Re: Trains Date: 26 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
In article <7d3e5d$2oh$1@hermes.louisville.edu>, david lynch <dflync01@louisville.edu> wrote:
Given a choice between spending 14 hours making myself moderately comfortable on a train or three hours uncomfortable on a plane and 11 hours comfortable wherever the hell it is I am, I'll take the plane.
DC to New York, it's three hours on the train versus four on the plane sitting on some damn taxiway. But that is a very unusual case.
Generally speaking anything that's more than six hours' drive away I'll try and work up a plane ticket for, and they're not that expensive considering. Six hours or less I'll usually go Greyhound.
Depends on the city-- whether there are actually direct buses and whether there is actually an airport. From Williamsburg, Virginia to DC, Amtrak was the only form of mass transit comparable to driving in speed. The only problem was that there was only one train a day and it left at about 7 AM-- difficult for college students... so I frequently took Trailways and took all day to take what should have been a three- or four-hour trip, if the buses would just stay on the interstate instead of tumbling off embankments to blossom in glorious deadly blooms of blood and flame as Ponch and John looked on, horrified. "Now we'll never get to the talent show in time to save the orphanage," said Ponch. "I cry when I think of all those children living wasted lives on the street, getting hopped up on goofballs and getting their kidneys stolen. And all because some crazy bus driver didn't bother to clean off his right rear-view mirror." "How true that is," said Jack Webb. Harry Morgan shook his head in sad agreement and they all went to drown their sorrows in a tasty Mixed Grill Platter at the fabulous old-time Wursthaus in old Cambridge, Massachusetts, as streetcars clanged outside and young Ted Kennedy played hooky and young James "Kibo" Parry recovered from a hard day running an imagesetter by eating an entire wiener schnitzel in one gulp. And they all agreed that it was the best Christmas ever!
-- Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/