cream cheese city, here i come

amtrak?  booked!  i heart trains.  they are almost as exciting as planes.  wheeeee!  amtrak and airports, two places i adore.

i find it FANTASTIC that it takes over three hours to drive to illadelphia but less than two to get there via train.  if there's one thing i miss about the west coast on occasions like this, when my beloved, reliable, $25  hasidic/vamoose bus isn't a possibility because

a] it's the sabbath and
b] it only goes to nyc,

it's how easy it is to drive everywhere on the left coast.  por ejemplo, it's 146 miles from here to there.  in CA, that's NOT a three hour drive, unless there is traffic.  and we all know how i deal with traffic.  i'd rather be late than sit in it.   

i don't want to drive every day, mind you.  that's what subways are for, and that's why i adoooore the east coast.  but a day trip like this which is NOT to nyc?  driving is preferable to sketchy-assed chinatown buses* and tight schedules which would require missing trains if the night is especially stellar.  having typed that, i ain't driving on 295 to 395 to 495 to 595 to 637 to 841...shudder.  so amtrak is my knight in shining metal.  sigh.  freeways are just more LOGICAL in california. ;)  you may read that last declaration as, "the places i like to go are all on 80." :D 

now i just have to shower, pack, primp and hail a cab.  so blogging is probably not the best use of my time right now.  FINALLY, new pictures for you to avoid work with... ;)

Comments

[niki]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

[nina]

im so glad you came up even though it was short, but most defly sweet!! :)