And you can wander from car to car which is fun, and there’s often an observation car with big windows you can just hang out in
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Oct 31, 2022 5:54:20 pm PDT #18272 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jesse - Oct 31, 2022 5:59:34 pm PDT #18273 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just bought a train ticket last night! But just to NYC.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2022 6:00:02 pm PDT #18274 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm still going to do the big cross-Canada trip I had booked for March 2020, just next fall probably.
-t - Oct 31, 2022 6:32:33 pm PDT #18275 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, fun!
-t - Oct 31, 2022 6:34:49 pm PDT #18276 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Talked to my mom about going to see the annular eclipse next year, so I feel good about that. I expect finding a place to stay to be much less fraught than a total eclipse, but might as well start planning early.
Calli - Oct 31, 2022 7:00:24 pm PDT #18277 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That long train trip sounds amazing!
I’m thinking of visiting Montreal for my next not-family trip. I keep meaning to go to England, but Montreal seems less expensive and with less actual travel time.
-t - Oct 31, 2022 7:18:29 pm PDT #18278 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I really want to go to Montreal. Some day.
lisah - Oct 31, 2022 7:36:53 pm PDT #18279 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Seconding msbelle’s hell yeah!
aurelia - Oct 31, 2022 7:48:18 pm PDT #18280 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
here to Chicago because I have never taken that route
I support this plan.
Karl - Oct 31, 2022 7:58:53 pm PDT #18281 of 30000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
People who are thinking of going to Montreal: Do it, do it, do it! I took the train from Toronto (I was in town to visit colleagues) and it was a lovely four-hour train ride, with very friendly train staff who asked me if I wanted the train announcements in English or French. Being greedy, I opted for both.
My spoken French (learned 35 years ago!) is just barely good enough to be understood in Paris, but Quebec French is just plain beyond me -- it's different enough that I wound up asking people to repeat themselves multiple times, and usually after the second time, they gave up and switched to English. But it was all done in good humour, with none of the haughtiness that I'd feared. And I could read the street signs, which was a thrill and a half. The mass transit is low-key efficient and the subway has rubber tires, which makes it a lot less noisy than others I've been on.
The people were lovely, the walking was gorgeous, and I would go back in a hot minute.