There is news today of a proposal for a new train . . . and how long has it been since those words have been written? What’s more, Amtrak is apparently on board and supporting the idea. The new train would be an extension of Amtrak’s Crescent, which operates daily from New York City to…
It was a spur-of-the-moment thing—probably because I got an email saying that one of my friends is going—but I’ve decided to attend the meeting of the Rail Passengers Association next month in Washington. (Well, actually, it will be in Alexandria, Virginia, which is fine with me because it cuts the hotel rates about in half….
I’ve posted about this incident before, but it bears repeating. It started with an overnight trip to Honolulu I made a few months back. I had booked a room on line using what I thought was the hotel’s web page. The rate quoted for the one night, including tax, was $231.17 and that was the…
One time—I was probably 12 or 13—our entire family drove to Florida from our home in Connecticut. It was over Spring Break, which was known as Easter Vacation in those days. My father enjoyed the experience because he did the driving, but I remember it as a dreadful 1400-mile, 3-day ordeal, an opinion that was…