I'm so spoiled now...

[MyJourneys]

Just returned from a trip that required very long flights. The whole time I just kept thinking... "I wish I was on a train instead!" Just one overnight in a sleeper has ruined me for other forms of transportation.

 

[StriderGDM]

Just returned from a trip that required very long flights. The whole time I just kept thinking... "I wish I was on a train instead!" Just one overnight in a sleeper has ruined me for other forms of transportation.

Years ago I had reason to do several business trips from Troy to Ann Arbor Michigan. The CFO could never understand why I preferred the train. Either way I'd have to get up about the same time (wake up on the train to get off, or leave the house to catch the plane). One way was much more civilized and I enjoyed the dinner every time. And it was just as cheap.

 

[niemi24s]

Flying Coach class nowadays always reminds me of this mode of travel: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/53112

 

[SarahZ]

Just returned from a trip that required very long flights. The whole time I just kept thinking... "I wish I was on a train instead!" Just one overnight in a sleeper has ruined me for other forms of transportation.

Years ago I had reason to do several business trips from Troy to Ann Arbor Michigan. The CFO could never understand why I preferred the train. Either way I'd have to get up about the same time (wake up on the train to get off, or leave the house to catch the plane). One way was much more civilized and I enjoyed the dinner every time. And it was just as cheap.

Troy, MI to Ann Arbor, MI? Why would anyone fly? It's only 50 miles.

Did I read that incorrectly or something?

 

[the_traveler]

I think he meant Troy, NY. You leave ALB after work, TOL early morning transfer. (At first, I thought the same thing. Unless it was a the_traveler's routing! )

 

[StriderGDM]

Just returned from a trip that required very long flights. The whole time I just kept thinking... "I wish I was on a train instead!" Just one overnight in a sleeper has ruined me for other forms of transportation.

Years ago I had reason to do several business trips from Troy to Ann Arbor Michigan. The CFO could never understand why I preferred the train. Either way I'd have to get up about the same time (wake up on the train to get off, or leave the house to catch the plane). One way was much more civilized and I enjoyed the dinner every time. And it was just as cheap.

Troy, MI to Ann Arbor, MI? Why would anyone fly? It's only 50 miles.

Did I read that incorrectly or something?

Yes you did. Troy NY.

 

[SarahZ]

That makes more sense. I was about to Google "cities named Troy". It's such a habit to assume Troy, MI when I hear that name.

 

[the_traveler]

Same with me. When I say that TPS is based in Rockville, people assume it's MD and not RI.

 

[neutralist]

Troy, MI to Ann Arbor, MI? Why would anyone fly? It's only 50 miles.

you will be surprised about the amount of A-holes who are willing to pay $300 to fly from Chicago ORD to Champaign CMI and burn sh*t ton of CO2 in the process. it is simply batphuck insane.
Being that said, when our fellow chinamen are getting rip off by a $4000 taxi trip, Amtrak need to keep up with the needs of the international clientele.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-08-28/ui-student-china-scammed-out-thousands-ohare.html

 

[George K]

One way was much more civilized

There you go. People at work are surprised when I use that word. No cattle, no crowding. Civilized.

As Lord Raglan said, "Culture (civilization) is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't."

 

[FormerOBS]

I thought Troy was in Anatolia, in Asia Minor. I guess I'm just not up to date on these things. Oh well ...... back to Geography class.

Tom

 

[FormerOBS]

In any case, I don't think there are any trains from Asia Minor to Ann arbor, Sarah.

Tom