![]() ![]() The seats are spacious you can get up and wander around to stretch your legs find a table to work or play cards there are affordable private rooms, dining cars, beds, and the "AutoTrain" even brings your car along and has it waiting for you when you step off. I do still enjoy train trips, as it is an anachronistic throwback to a more civilized era. These days, travel is a necessary torture to be endured to get where you wish to be. That, however, was back in a time when they served steaks grilled seat-side on airplanes. “Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles.” ![]() In It’s A Wonderful Life, George Bailey remarked, Once upon a time, the journey itself was seen as one of the pleasures of travel. I simply hate the experience provided by airlines today. ![]() Why? Mostly, it's because I don’t care for travel-air travel, to be exact. I could see that in her eyes, but she also knew there was little chance of it. Robin approached me about this most apprehensively. The publisher and convention organizers together would foot the bill for both our transportation and lodgings for the entire time we were there. In 2018, my Italian publisher wrote requesting that I come to Florence to do a week of signings at the Lucca Convention. ![]()
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