I’m taking the Crescent down to Spartanburg, South Carolina today, where I’ll be speaking at the Bodies of Knowledge conference on Friday, April 11th, at 2:30 PM. I’m very much looking forward to the conference and to meeting the organizer and other speakers.
Then I turn around & come back home in time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of having met Betty.
The beauty of 28 hours of round-trip train time? Writing time. No cell phone. Sims when I want or need a break. Theoretically, naps. And then, well, Amtrak food.
Thank you again to my secret laptop donor. You really have made my life remarkably easier, and better.
Hope the train wasn’t *too* awfully late 🙂
it was exactly on time! 4:14am.
Awesome! Amtrak has such problems with ontime performance. In case you didn’t know already – it’s mainly due to delays caused by dispatching by the freight railroads whose tracks Amtrak uses, where they don’t prioritize Amtrak (as they’re actually supposed to do by federal law!). CSX and Union Pacific are two of the worst offenders.
Gee, here’s a related item 🙂
http://www.politickernj.com/paganm/17927/new-report-shows-delays-freight-railroad-lines-cost-amtrak-and-taxpayers-millions
& it was *early* coming back to nyc. that rocked.
i think losing $137 million should be enough evidence that passenger trains need their own damn tracks.
infrastructure spending, anyone? gas prices are only going up.