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True. It has not been a great trip for him. I have talked about how great travel by Amtrak is. So his first real overnight trip and he is put on a bus. He said the car was freezing last night (ironic) and he couldn't sleep, and the crew took all the tables in the dining car so passengers were...

Crescent canceled past Atlanta due to heat (?) I have a friend aboard the Crescent tonight. They've been told the rain is terminating in Atlanta and they will be bussed to New Orleans. The reason given is that it's due to a heat advisory in the south. What would the issue be? It doesn't make...

<===== Plus you can a get a beer across the street!

We did a family trip in the 70s from DC to San Antonio. I remember the overnight on the sleeper in NOLA. We actually went to Cafe Du Monde for beignets in the morning. A highlight was being in the observation car and coming across Lake Ponchartrain at night in a lightning storm.

Watch the rates for hospitalization and deaths. Very, very low and trending down. Cases don't matter very much.

This is nuts.

I stayed at the Hyatt Place last year to catch the Zephyr. There are actually two Hyatts about a block apart. The Hyatt House is the closer one. It was a very nice mid-range hotel. The morning walk to the overpass and train station was about 10 minutes with a rolling suitcase. I understand that...

This may be overkill and it's not cheap, but it completely blocks reflection and gives you more room to change your angle than a rubber lens hood: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1051335-REG/lenskirt_lskirt1_lenskirt.html Another thing that can help is to use a circular polarizing...