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Here's @amtrak 's Train 41, southbound, during a "stretch-and-smoke" stop in #Jacksonville, Florida.
I rode the train for 52 hours, from #Chicago to #Miami.
I highly recommend the experience, as long as...
...you can sleep in a bedroom, or a roomette.
(Two nights trying to sleep in upright seats in coach is pretty hard on the back.)
@straphanger@urbanists.socialSure, it's more expensive than flying.
But you save on two nights in hotels, and you get six free meals—good ones, too—and you have an experience you'd never get in a pressurized bubble at 20,000 feet.
I write about my odyssey on The Floridian, through 10 states and over 2,000 miles, in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatch:
@straphanger saving on 2 nights in hotels you would otherwise spend in own bed is a weird take
@martenson Uh, people pay a fortune to sleep on cruise ships, rather than in their own beds.
If you don't like to travel, then sleeping in your own bed will always win by default.
@straphanger I actually do like train sleeper cars quite a lot. It is just that this comparison with airplanes falls short for me.