Traveling the US by train (wish we had a travel subforum)

[The Argonaut]

What's the best city in North Carolina (with an Amtrak station) that I should visit for a couple days in late April or early May?

[spike]

It’s probably in South Carolina.

[96583UP]

prob the best way would be to go to walmart's website and search by location

[The Argonaut]

Do we think I could be able to travel overnight br train in coach? Amtrak seats are generally OK and I have been known to drink three pints in New York and then put on my noise cancelling headphones and sleep for the full three hours back upstate. I don't know, I think I could spend a night in coach on the train. Two straight nights? What think we?

[doug rr]

keep your wallet in your front pocket

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[dimejinky99]

[E.H. Ruddock]

What's the best city in North Carolina (with an Amtrak station) that I should visit for a couple days in late April or early May?

Raleigh

[doug rr]

[The Argonaut]

argh, I still don't know what to do. I don't want to take more than like six days off work. So, say a ten day trip total. I kind of want to take the overnight train to Chicago and then another overnight train to Jackson MS, then come back up the east coast over a couple jags. But that is probably a lot for ten days.

A more manageable option is just to hop down the east coast a bit. See a game at Camden Yards, spend a couple days in DC, maybe get down to somewhere in NC (Raleigh is lovely I'm sure, ruddo, but there doesn't seem to be a hotel room for less than $300/night anywhere in town so that may be out). But then it doesn't even seem worth it because I could just as easily drive to those places. Why even take the train?

[doug rr]

what would Gunnar Henderson do?

[Bammer]

Merge this mf thread

[96583UP]

maybe you should just spend all the money at an upstate strip club instead