Broadway, looking south from 49th Street toward Times Square, on the evening of Saturday August 2, 2008.
We have returned from a six day family trip to NYC — the kind of vacation you need to rest up from. This is especially true if you go by train and are too cheap to pay for a sleeper berth.
I’ll blog more when I wake up.
CathyAJ | 10-Aug-08 at 8:58 am | Permalink
How cool that you went by train!
Last year I looked into taking the train to Berkley for a conference and found out I couldn’t afford a sleeper berth either. (It would have actually been cheaper to fly.)
Maybe the high gas prices will make train travel more popular again — and cheaper?
Mitch | 10-Aug-08 at 12:13 pm | Permalink
Trains are big on the East Coast. I was amazed at how many people were waiting to catch a train last Sunday in Penn Station. Most were traveling up or down the coast. For example, there is a high-speed express running from New York to Washington DC. All the trains we were on were full. They were also mostly on time. We arrived in NYC exactly on time. Coming home, we were an hour late getting to Toledo. However, it would take some bucks to rebuild the passenger rail infrastructure in this country to a level where it could seriously compete with air and car.
CathyAJ | 21-Aug-08 at 9:27 am | Permalink
>However, it would take some bucks to rebuild the
>passenger rail infrastructure in this country to a level
>where it could seriously compete with air and car.
Sad. There’s something practical and romantic about train travel.
When my husband and I were in DC, we loved the Metro — hop on and get anywhere you want to go! Need to switch to a bus? No problem! Everyone was very helpful. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to do that anywhere in Michigan? Unfortunately, it will probably never happen either.