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i'd love to find out, but not for $100

yeah i saw the "fastest" has a travel time of *still* 3 hours 30 minutes. the road trip is about 2h30m without a pit stop. like what are we even doing here

oh yeah, i took a train from coast to coast a while back and it was a 3 day trip each way for about the same cost as a plane ticket. amtrak hates having passenger service and will stab your wallet for it.

Yes every time I plan to go somewhere I check the train fares and its impossible. I checked what it would take for a trip from Detroit to Denver and it was totally insane

a car rental comes with total freedom (go wherever you want, whenever you want) with the only real drawback being gas prices. with a train you're at the mercy of public transit. i want to like it! it'd be great! it's just, well

we don't live in WA any more, so it goes nowhere.

this made me look up to see what it costs to take metra from milwaukee to chicago (not quite as a distance but still) and i found out metra only goes to the border and amtrak is still the best way between these two cities. what the fuck are we doing

there's this weird dynamic that rises up whenever we're together with others, where the more people we have, the more economical it is to... *not* use public transit. one or two? buss and light rail. three or four? starts to look like a lyft, even if a bus route would work just fine.