This posted yesterday, but it wasn’t supposed to so I took it down to finish it. I probably accidentally set it to publish when I meant to mark it as a draft, but I see no reason to take responsibility for the error when I can instead just blame some vague “computer glitch.” It could have been the machines, though. I can’t prove it wasn’t. I’ve seen Terminator, I know how these things get started. Now I’ve decided not bother finishing it, so I’m just putting it back. That’s why there are comments, dated yesterday on a post dated today. (Those pre-dated comments do comport with the time-traveling Terminator “rise of the machines” scenario as well… Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
There are a lot of things wrong with Amtrak, but it’s things like this that really make me wonder. I’m tired of flying all the time and I can’t do long car rides very well or often so I thought to myself, “Self, why not take the train from Ocala to Sarasota?” I checked the route schedules and this is what I got:
That turns a 2 – 3 hour cartrip into a 10 hour journey. Why would I do that?
No comment.
Why is this posted? It was a draft. Now I think my blog has developed it’s own intelligence.
Well, I hereby declare this post finished now. It’s for the best, it was only going to devolve into a rant about Michael Dukakis.
It has been pointed out to me that the disclaimer/explanation at the top of the post is actually longer than the post itself.
It was also pointed out to me today that comments aren’t time-stamped. Working to fix that.
OK. So now it shows the time of the post when you’re viewing an individual post, and it shows the time a comments was left. Except that the times that are showing have no basis in reality and I’m not sure if that’s because of something I’ve done to the whole site, or if it’s just because this post and it’s comments went time-traveling. Have to check another post, because it’s 10:20 and the last comment I left says 12:44 a.m.
wow, I edited php without breaking the internet, for a change.
Not only does it turn a 2-3 hour car trip into a 10 hour train ride, it costs as much as if you were to fly to New York from Miami, round trip.
I don’t fly well, myself, and tried to get from Miami to LA via train for a week of computer classes. It would have taken a week, and required me to go to Washington, DC and then Chicago and probably Montana before heading south. I gave up and flew.
I could go on a rant about here regarding the FEC (Florida East Coast Railroad) which was a very useful passenger line in my long-ago youth, before the workers went on strike, and then the railway collapsed and I think there may even still be a strike, in the way that the Seminoles are still at war with the USA, and that is why there is still is no passenger service on the old FEC lines. There used to be a west coast rail line, too, because how else could you get the circus to Sarasota for the winter?
Rail travel. A lost art in Amurka.
I swear when I was a kid (sometime in the late 70s maybe) Ringling had started using trucks, but they would offload their trucks onto trains in Bradenton so that the circus could still roll into sarasota on the train. I’ll have to look that up some time.