[78-L] ARSC^

[buster]

Typically sewer gas and rotted food combined with stale sweat and smelly feet. Quite a cocktail. European trains don't seem to have that problem as much, for some reason...and those folks are supposed to less fond of deodorants, so go figure. 

Admittedly airplanes are awful in their own way, but at least it's over faster, and you go more miles per hours suffered. 

On May 5, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:

> What smell or the smell of what?
> 
> Ron L
> 
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> Except for the smell. The penetrating, enveloping, nauseating smell. 
> 
> On May 5, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Around 10 years ago I took the Lake Shore Limited from Boston to Chicago
> for
>> a meeting.  I booked a private sleeper and it was such a nice trip.  I
>> boarded in Boston at around 4:00 and, even though according to AMTRAK, the
>> sleeper would not be available until later in the trip, I was guided to my
>> private roomette.   I had a pleasant trip, rehearsed my presentation,
> read,
>> listened to the walkman, ate and slept well, and the next morning at 10 or
>> so, arrived in the center of Chicago, a 10 min. cab ride from my hotel.
>> That's the way to travel.
>> 
>> Ron L
>> 
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>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biel
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>> On 5/5/2011 12:22 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> From: "Ron L'Herault"<lherault at bu.edu>
>>>> No one goes by train any more.
>>>> 
>>> Not quite true...although I am not sure if I can still travel to
>>> Chicago by train!
>> 
>> We've lost so much of our train travel possibilities here in the U.S.  
>> In other places EVERYBODY travels by train.  I've spent several Summers 
>> in Europe going all over the continent by train.  You would think that 
>> it would be a Conservative value to support good old fashioned train 
>> travel, but it is the progressive areas like Europe, Japan, and even 
>> China that support and continually improve their train travel.  It often 
>> is much more convenient and even faster by train than by plane, 
>> especially when the train takes you right into the center of town rather 
>> than you having to drive two hours to the airport and fly East to get 
>> your connecting flight to go West, and then have another long drive back 
>> into town.  (And in Europe you can usually take a train to and from the 
>> airport!)
>> 
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  .
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