re: #61 Joe Bacon 🌹

The plus on riding Amtrak is that they still serve you actual meals instead of the half can of Diet Coke and a pack of pretzels or peanuts like the airlines do!

I haven’t ridden Amtrak since 1973 (Was it even Amtrak back then?). Do they still have dining cars? I’ve ridden trains in the UK in recent years, and they don’t have dining cars, but do have canteens, where you can buy a sandwich, a drink or a beer, a salad, &c.

They are also seriously expensive. A train from Edinburgh to the unfortunately named village of Leighton Buzzard where my wife’s sister lives was around 150 pounds apiece (EasyJet would have been forty apiece), but then again we had little choice as the ashes of the cremated Icelandic economy were spewed all over Europe in a volcanic eruption that shut down the continent’s air traffic.