Rave: Modern transportation
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jim
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Re: Rave: Modern transportation
On the way to Cancun my wife was pulled over, where they found her trying to smuggle in a bottle of sunscreen. On the way back, I won the lottery and was randomly screened and they searched through my luggage (two carry on bags). They ran the bomb napkins over all of my stuff too.
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stlouie_lipp
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Re: Rave: Modern transportation
This.ghostrunner wrote:I wish the US had a real train system.
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tlombard
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Re: Rave: Modern transportation
I think this might be the year that I take a week off and just go on a train trip somewhere. I've been wanting to do it for a few years now and just never gotten around to actually taking a vacation. Plus, the train system won't get better if people don't use it so I'll be doing my part.
Maybe in a couple of months I'll schedule a week off for vacation and then go where ever the cheap deals they advertise will take me.
I don't even really care where I go. I have just always wanted to take a real trip on a train since I was a kid and my grandparents took me to the National Museum of Transportation every year and then one short day trip on a train when I was maybe six or seven. I even got to 'drive' one once. They were moving cars around the museum and in between moves they let us onto the locomotive they were using to move the cars around (we were the only ones there) and showed me how to release the brakes and slowly we went down one of the side tracks. For a kid it was awesome. I didn't get to blast the horn or kick up the power but I'll still count it as driving because I released the brake and then stopped us even if it was all really slow and only 100 yards or so.
Maybe in a couple of months I'll schedule a week off for vacation and then go where ever the cheap deals they advertise will take me.
I don't even really care where I go. I have just always wanted to take a real trip on a train since I was a kid and my grandparents took me to the National Museum of Transportation every year and then one short day trip on a train when I was maybe six or seven. I even got to 'drive' one once. They were moving cars around the museum and in between moves they let us onto the locomotive they were using to move the cars around (we were the only ones there) and showed me how to release the brakes and slowly we went down one of the side tracks. For a kid it was awesome. I didn't get to blast the horn or kick up the power but I'll still count it as driving because I released the brake and then stopped us even if it was all really slow and only 100 yards or so.