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February 07, 2006
The Acela
I’m currently zooming down the east coast of Rhode Island on the Acela. I absolutely love this train. It’s fast and comfortable and productivity-boosting. I sit in the quiet car and do work, knit, eat, or read. It just feels so civilized. Why anyone would take a taxi to an airport an hour early and suffer through the indignities of bag searches and airport mazes instead is beyond me. Granted, I did have a bit of trouble catching the right train in Penn, but that’s because Penn is the most awful, ugly, impossible-to-navigate train station in the world. I just passed a marina, and the ocean actually looks blue. I got to the train station, which was across the street from my hotel in Boston, about 10 minutes before the train left. This feels like such a luxury.
Posted by csageday at February 7, 2006 03:55 PM