LifeInMultipleChoice

The train would be great. The prompt was cross country for a weekend trip. All of your responses fail to realize the prompt. If it isn't over 1000 miles, there is no way it's cross country in our country. The weekend is 2 days.

Think it's bathing suit material by the stitching but I could be wrong.

If you had a sleeper car it'd work alright. Obviously leaving Friday night would make it much nicer. Otherwise your always stuck with after dark Saturday night, and maybe a couple hours Sunday morning. But if you can get bottomless mimosas with breakfast and sleep during the 9 hours back it'd make you be able to leave in the afternoon Sunday.

Was curious about the lake on that last one, ouch. That one might be hard with any speed rail. Chicago Detroit should be easy, Minneapolis a little harder but you could probably get it down to 6 hours each way

I never said the plane was practical for a weekend getaway either. My response was that this "I want trains so people can have cross country road trips on the weekend" just wasnt practical to the majority of cases. A lot of people are saying HSR would be good for interstate trips, and yes they would. Even next state over.

But right now it's set up horrible so it is more expensive and takes longer for most even semi long trips. Like this

Cheapest and fastest route is to drive. Once you factor in everything it'll take to get into an airport and out, and you have a vehicle while your there. So most Americans compare prices to that and say it's better to just drive. It'd be nice if there was a 3 hour train that covered that for $50. Trips like that Id love

I usually like the demeaning flights if I have to fly, so I shoot for Spirit. And I try to keep to just a backpack if I can, a tiny suitcase I can carry on instead if I need dress clothes.

Last time I flew Nashville to Orlando I threw a couple items in a grocery bag and went with that. All my toiletries are usually in a small zip up bag.

Spirit is terrible, but when it's $44 for the flight why not. I'm already going to get sexually harassed by TSA, I'm not really fretting the attendant running in circles wondering where the pilot is at.

Jeez not sure why that was so rough Today's flights

Like why would anyone take that third flight with the stop? Just show up slightly later for cheaper... "I left 8 hours later and got their 20 mins later". Airlines are crazy sometimes

The train from to Miami has been quoted and attempted over and over since I was about 7 growing up in the greater Orlando area. 28 years later and it's still in talks. They tried to connect Tampa to Daytona through Orlando. (All they needed to do was follow I4 as the road already goes there.). This is as far as that has gotten: (15 years on that alone)

So leave Saturday morning say 8, take a train at 9, get there around 9pm, get to your hotel by 10pm go to bed by 11pm get up at 6. Go have your breakfast meeting, leave for the train station around 8 to leave by 9am to get back by 9pm to get home, get ready for bed and go to work in the morning.

That is not a weekend trip to me. That's a sitting in transportation for an entire weekend and not doing much of anything.

So about 14 hours each way plus traveling to the form the trainstation to your final destination. So I would assume ~30 hours of travel on a weekend. Nope, still rediculous. Also that's a couple hundred miles shorter than Orlando to Denver. Cross country weekend trip just isn't practical without taking a plane.

You only need ~5% of Republicans to not vote or hate Trump enough to say maybe unknown candidate will be better and vote for them.

Can he get 1 in 20 Republicans to think Trump and co are bad? Not sure, but when your enemies want to fight each other, let them