I like staying in good hotels. I like the clean, efficient rooms with wi-fi and little soaps in fancy boxes and the instant hot water in the showers. And I like the hotel restaurants with efficient, polished servers … especially those restaurants with Eggs Benedict on the breakfast menus. But there is a certain funky…
I’m leaving in about an hour on a three week trip that includes (1) a brief visit with my daughter and her family in the San Diego area, (2) the semi-annual meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) in Washington, DC, (3) and a three-game series between the Boston Red Sox and the…
Patient: “Doc, it hurts when I do this.” Doctor: “Then stop doing that!” * * * Well, it would appear that the dreadful on-time problems Amtrak’s Empire Builder has been experiencing for the past several months are going to be corrected … sort of … with a change in the train’s schedule. The two sections…
Those of us holding reservations for sleeping car space on the Coast Starlight, the Empire Builder or the Lake Shore Limited have received formal notification by email that the little perks we may have enjoyed in recent years on those trains will no longer be provided. Truthfully, I’m not really all that upset by this….