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Here's @amtrak 's Train 41, southbound, during a "stretch-and-smoke" stop in , Florida.

I rode the train for 52 hours, from to .

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.)

Sure, 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.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

I write about my odyssey on The Floridian, through 10 states and over 2,000 miles, in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatch:

highspeed.blog/two-thousand-mi