I'm On Board

Taking the train to Chicago is pretty cool.  You have plenty of legroom, you can spend all of your time hanging out in the lounge car, and you get to eat dinner with strangers.  In general, it has a nice old-school feel to it, with freedon to roam about and nobody rifling through your bags or asking you to remove you shoes.   Of course, it takes as long, or longer, than driving so if you’re in a hurry it’s not a great choice.  I could also see myself getting pretty sick of it after a few days, but the folks in the lower level of the lounge were making the best of it on my trip home, complete with guitars and singing.