Would you Ride The train?
September 22nd, 2008
We are working thru our travel plans for the 2009 Spring Church IT RoundTable/Ministry Tech event…. and that leaves me wondering would you ride the train?
We are thinking about taking Amtrak from Chicago to Colorado. It is a scheduled 15 hour trip over night (yes i know train travel isn’t always on time but nor is air travel). The cost per person is roughly $190 per person. It could be a great time for CITRT community before and after the event…
Would you be interested in a train trip with others next spring?
I think it is a great idea. I would be very interested.
I would not do it for the roundtable as I have no plans to attend. But if you have never taken Amtrak I encourage you to do so. Spring of 07 my family and I took the train from Dallas to Chicago. It was about 24 hours but we really enjoyed it. The cost of flying was about the same once you factored in we had 2 nights on the train we would have had to be in a hotel room. One thing to keep in mind on the train though, forget the schedule and pad each way as much as you can. It seems the schedule is just a “suggestion”.
Make sure you take an EVDO Router.
If it was practical for me to do so, I’d consider it. But to catch a train to Denver, I either have to drive 3 hours to Omaha or take a train for 8 hours to Chicago. and then turn around and head back to Omaha and then Denver. Fortunately, that line spends the entire trip through Nebraska at night in both directions (and I’ve been told it’s a 90mph train through most of NE)
And then there’s the small matter of getting down to Colorado Springs once you get to Denver.
I may drive it and drop the wife and kids off at Grandma’s on the way.