Three years ago, I was on Amtrak’s Train 19, the Crescent, traveling from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. We were due to arrive there at 9:00 p.m., but that train habitually runs late due to “freight traffic”. We were very late that night. It was after 1:00 a.m. when we finally arrived at the New…
NEW ORLEANS, LA — I had lunch in the Crescent’s dining car coming here from Washington. A man in his mid-40s was seated across from me when the train stopped in an attractive town. Lips curled and jaw set, my lunch companion peered out the window. “Tuscaloosa, Alabama,” he muttered softly under his breath and…
There is wifi on the Crescent! I was delighted and actually watched a bit of the Red Sox-Oakland A’s game, although the picture on my laptop was poor and it froze for 20 or 30 seconds every few minutes. The dining car crew was excellent, but the diner itself was never more than half full….
I got a listicle by email this morning. That’s a recently created word referring to a newspaper or magazine article that lists ten or twelve of anything: the ten most popular breed of dogs, or the twelve new car models most likely to have serious repair problems. Quite often, there is no mention of any…